Le volcan du Piton de la Fournaise de l'île de La Réunion est entré en éruption pour la 3ème fois. L'éruption a commencée hier le 9 décembre à 22h42, heure locale après deux crises sismiques. L'éruption a démarrée au niveau d’une fissure située sur le flanc extérieur N du sommet du cratère du cône Dolomieu, à environ 1 km de distance et a alimenté une coulée de lave. ...plus [lire toutes]

A new eruption began on Piton de la Fournaise volcano last evening. Lava fountains and flows are emitted from vents along a new fissure inside the Enclos. [lire toutes]

Unrest at Piton de la Fournaise continues and the volcano observatory has raised alert to level 1 (eruption in near or immediate future probable). Deformation at the summit and seismic activity indicate ascent of fresh magma beneath Dolomieu crater. [lire toutes]

Piton de la Fournaise volcano greets the new year with its first eruption in 2010 on 2 January. A fissure vent inside the Dolomieu summit crater erupted lava fountains and a lava flow contained inside the crater, deepened by the large eruption in 2008. The eruption followed a gradual increase inseismic activity since Dec 28. The last, very short-lived eruption happened just about 3 weeks ago, and it seems likely that Piton de la Fournaise has entered a period of frequent but short eruptions, fed by dikes in its highly fractured summit zone, forming of a relatively permeable central plumbing system. [lire toutes]