Volcano news: Colima Volcano (Mexico)
Colima volcano (Mexico): series of ash explosions, video
Thu, 5 Feb 2015, 19:43
19:43 PM | BY: T
Explosion at Colima today
Lava flows continue to be active with slow advance rates, generating incandescent rockalls on the SW and WNW flanks.
Residents are warned not go within 5 km of the volcano.
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Previous news
Sat, 24 Jan 2015, 10:17
Eruptive activity continues at moderate levels with effusion of viscous lava at the summit, producing frequent smaller and sometimes larger rockfalls and avalanches. Small to moderate explosions occur a few times per day: read all
Wed, 21 Jan 2015, 18:53
A strong vulcanian-type explosion occurred this morning at 09:15 from the volcano's summit. An ash column rose more than 4 km above the summit, reaching eventually estimated approx. 29,000 ft (9 km) altitude and drifting NE. ... read all
Sun, 18 Jan 2015, 12:45
Frequent small to moderate explosions occur at the volcano's summit lava dome. Thanks to the new webcam from webcamsdemexico.com, this activity can now be followed more closely. ... read all
Sat, 3 Jan 2015, 11:17
Activity of the volcano remains stable at low to moderate levels. Viscous lava is being extruded at the summit crater, forming a flat lava dome that is overspilling in several places, producing a short lava flow and incandescent rockfalls. read all
Sun, 30 Nov 2014, 15:34
An explosion occurred this morning and produced a plume that rose to approx 5 km altitude and drifted 80 km to the northeast before dissipating. ... read all
Background:
Colima volcano is one of the most active in North America and one of the potentially most dangerous ones. It has had more than 30 periods of eruptions since 1585, including several significant eruptions in the late 1990s. Scientific monitoring of the volcano began 20 years ago.The Colima volcanic complex is the most prominent volcanic center of the western Mexican Volcanic Belt. It consists of two southward-younging volcanoes, Nevado de Colima (the 4320 m high point of the complex) on the north and the 3850-m-high historically active Volcán de Colima at the south.
A group of cinder cones of probable late-Pleistocene age is located on the floor of the Colima graben west and east of the Colima complex. Volcán de Colima (also known as Volcán Fuego) is a youthful stratovolcano constructed within a 5-km-wide caldera, breached to the south, that has been the source of large debris avalanches. Major slope failures have occurred repeatedly from both the Nevado and Colima cones, and have produced a thick apron of debris-avalanche deposits on three sides of the complex. Frequent historical eruptions date back to the 16th century. Occasional major explosive eruptions (most recently in 1913) have destroyed the summit and left a deep, steep-sided crater that was slowly refilled and then overtopped by lava dome growth.
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Source: GVP, Smithsonian Institute - Colima information
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