Thursday, Sep 27, 2012

The volcano continues to increase its activity slowly. Incandescent strombolian pulses were seen at night throwing bombs to 100-150 meters above the crater and some of the material generated weak to modest avalanches when falling back. Rumbling and degassing sounds were noted at intervals of 1-6 minutes. ... [more]

Wednesday, Sep 26, 2012

In the last 24 hours between 24-25 Sep, Fuego's activity increased a bit. The volcano had 13 explosions, some of which could be heard in 6 km distance. Incandescent material was thrown up to 100-150 m above the crater and ash plumes reached 300-800 m height and drifted up to 10 km to the north and northeast, INSIVUMEH reported in the last bulletin yesterday. [more]

Tuesday, Sep 25, 2012

Activity remains moderate to low with 8 explosions registered over the past 24 hours, 6 weak and 2 moderate ones sending small ash plumes up to 700 m above the crater. Incandescent bombs reach 75 m above the crater and produce small avalanches towards Taniluya and Ash canyons. [more]

Sunday, Sep 23, 2012

Activity has decreased at Fuego volcano. In its latest report from this morning, INSIVUMEH writes that there were only 5 weak and one moderate explosions over 24 hours, with small ash plumes up to 300-600 m height and ejections of incandescent bombs to 75 m above the crater. Small avalanches of blocks were triggered towards the Taniluya and Ash canyons and there was faint rumbling audible. [more]

Saturday, Sep 22, 2012

There have been 10 explosions, 6 weak and 4 moderate, producing gray ash columns of 500 m to 1,000 m in height. These have generated avalanches of incandescent material reaching about 600 m length on the slopes. ... [more]