Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: ERUPTION AT 12/2330Z

Fri, 13 Jan 2017, 00:15
00:15 AM |
Satellite image of Colima volcano on 13 Jan 2017
Satellite image of Colima volcano on 13 Jan 2017
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Washington (VAAC) issued the following report:

FVXX21 at 00:00 UTC, 13/01/17 from KNES
VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20170112/2358Z

VAAC: WASHINGTON

VOLCANO: COLIMA
341040
PSN: N1930 W10337

AREA: MEXICO

SUMMIT ELEV: 12631 FT [3850
M]

ADVISORY NR: 2017/069

INFO SOURCE: GOES-EAST. VOLCANO WEB CAMERA.


ERUPTION DETAILS: ERUPTION AT 12/2330Z

RMK: WE HAVE RECEIVED
INFORMATION SUGGESTING A
POSSIBLE VA EMISSION. WE WILL GATHER
FURTHER
INFORMATION AND ISSUE A FULL ADVISORY AS SOON AS
POSSIBLE.

NXT
ADVISORY: AS SOON AS POSSIBLE

Previous news

Wed, 11 Jan 2017, 22:15
Colima volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: NEW EMS AT 11/2140Z
Wed, 11 Jan 2017, 06:00
Colima volcano (Mexico) - Smithsonian / USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report for 11 January-17 January 2017 (Continuing Activity)
Based on webcam and satellite images, and the Mexico City MWO, the Washington VAAC reported that during 11-17 January ash plumes from Colima rose to altitudes of 4.1-6.4 km (15,000-24,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted in multiple directions. ... Read all
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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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