Yasur Volcano
Updated: 19 abr. 2024 17:25 GMT -
stratovolcano 361 m (1,184 ft)
Tanna Island, Vanuatu, -19.53°S / 169.44°E
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
Tanna Island, Vanuatu, -19.53°S / 169.44°E
Current status: erupting (4 out of 5)
Last update: 13 mar 2024 (Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report)
Strombolian activity at Yasur volcano
Yasur is the most well known volcanoes of Vanuatu and one of the most active volcanoes in the world. Yasur is known for its spectacular persistent strombolian activity that consists of regular small to violent explosions from one or several vents.
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Typical eruption style: persistent strombolian activityErupciones del volcán Yasur: ongoing since at least AD 1774 (but likely many centuries before)
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Background
Yasur, the best-known and most frequently visited of the Vanuatu volcanoes, has been in more-or-less continuous strombolian and vulcanian activity since Captain Cook observed ash eruptions in 1774. This style of activity may have continued for the past 800 years. Yasur, located at the SE tip of Tanna Island, is a mostly unvegetated 361-m-high pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular, 400-m-wide summit crater. Yasur is largely contained within the small Yenkahe caldera and is the youngest of a group of Holocene volcanic centers constructed over the down-dropped NE flank of the Pleistocene Tukosmeru volcano. The Yenkahe horst is located within the Siwi ring fracture, a 4-km-wide, horseshoe-shaped caldera associated with eruption of the andesitic Siwi pyroclastic sequence. Active tectonism along the Yenkahe horst accompanying eruptions of Yasur has raised Port Resolution harbor more than 20 m during the past century.(source: Global Volcansim Project)
Yasur Volcano Photos
Explosión de una burbuja de lava en un respiradero activo en el cráter del volcán Yasur, Vanuatu (septiembre de 2014) (Photo: Walter Reis)
Borde del cráter del volcán Yasur, Vanuatu (septiembre de 2014) (Photo: Walter Reis)
Erupción del volcán Yasur, Vanuatu (septiembre de 2014) (Photo: Walter Reis)
El cráter en erupción del volcán Yasur bajo un cielo iluminado por la luna y las estrellas. La antorcha de un observador distante en el borde opuesto parece una segunda l...
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Yasur Volcano Tours
15-day volcano and photo expedition to Ambrym and Yasur volcanoes, Vanuatu
15 days / 14 nights - Moderate
Price 4490 €
Price 4490 €
2-16 jul 2024