Anak Krakatau eruption 2007: ash venting

Anak Krakatau eruption 2007: mostly ash - ash venting and powerful ash plumes

The most frequent type of activity was ash venting, occuring at intervals of typically 2 minutes, but the resulting plumes were relatively low ash clouds. Some of the more powerful explosions produced tall plumes of over 1 km height.

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ash venting: this was the most frequent type of activity we observed during our expedition. Such emi... (3304 Hits)	Typical ash venting from the new crater. (3734 Hits)	Regular pulses of ash create a series of ash plumes all drifting in the same direction eastward. (4035 Hits)	Normal ash venting at dawn of 25 November. (3297 Hits)
Sunset light over the caldera. Weak ash plumes drift in succession over to the east. (3907 Hits)	ash rich explosion early on 22 Nov. (3368 Hits)	Weak explosions and near-continuous spattering from the vent in the lower left of the crater; only m... (3453 Hits)	23 Nov evening: the usual thunderstorms over Sumatra illuminate the sky to the west while Krakatau i... (3216 Hits)
Krakatau_e33099.jpg (3335 Hits)	24 Nov evening: thick ash plumes rising to more than 1 km. (3489 Hits)	Krakatau_e33072.jpg (3403 Hits)	Krakatau_e33110.jpg (5275 Hits)
Krakatau_e33112.jpg (5307 Hits)	23 Nov evening: thick ash plumes rise from the eruptions under a full-moon sky. (3377 Hits)	Wind picks up and blows the ash clouds over the top of Anak Krakatau. (3505 Hits)	Finally, the light is off... (3171 Hits)