The crater with the new cone resembling a small lava dome has been inactive for many hours. The cond...
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The first signs that something is happening inside are isolated rockfalls on the flanks of the cone....
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Several minutes later, the rockfalls become more frequent and intense. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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About 10 minutes after the onset, the rockfalls and the sliding of material are continous and whirl ...
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The crater of the cone explodes. In a fragment of a second, a dense plume of ash and exploding rock ...
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Same view a fraction of seconds later. Rocks and ash continue to explode. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
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After less than 1 second into the eruption, the dense mass of rocks and hot lava that had been plugg...
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Zoom onto the expanding ejected plug of the explosion; only few of the blocks are actually glowing r...
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A fraction of a second later, the largest blocks are falling onto the slope of the cone, leaving den... Acheter cet image(2573 Hits)
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The largest blocks fall leaving huge scary fingertrails of ash behind. At the base of the eruption, ...
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The ash cloud expands and small pyroclastic flows develop from dense ash both ejected and whirled up... Acheter cet image(5363 Hits)
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After about 10 seconds, the first blocks impact on the water, while the ash could and the small pyro... Acheter cet image(2454 Hits)
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About 15 seconds after the beginning of the eruption, most bombs and blocks have fallen, the ash clo...
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Another explosion on 3 July has left the whole crater with dusty impacts of blocks and a rising ash ...
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After the first impact of the eruption is over, the ash plume continues to rise, often reaching more...
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The ash plume has lost its turbulence and power and is now expaning at elevation by atmospheric diff...
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While it's raining ash from the explosion that just passed, another, smaller explosion takes place. ...
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The ash plumes from two explosions are now drifting high above us and illuminated by the evening sun...
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A third, much weaker eruption takes place. In fact, only ash is exiting the crater rim. (Photo: Tom...
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The diffuse gray ash plume from the third eruption drifts far below the now very diffuse plume of th...
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