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Guaranteed tours: : spaces available / : guaranteed / : few spaces left / : booked out Support us?Maintaining the volcano and earthquake news sections on this website, the free Volcano Webcams tool and interactive map widget is a free-time, both time- and server cost intensive effort. If you find the information useful and would like to support us, and help keep it alive and improve it, please consider making a small donation (PayPal). Online cc paymentThank you!Random pictures | |  Tue, 31 Jul 2012, 10:08 Fuego volcano (Guatemala): Latest observations suggest a decreasing trend in activity, but strombolian eruptions continue with explosions producing 200-500 m high ash clouds, and at least one lava flow is still active. Seismic activity is at moderate levels. ...morePacaya (Guatemala): Volcanic seismic activity above background levels is visible on the PCG station. It includes tremor and shallow volcano-tectonic earthquakes. [ less] [ read all] Tue, 31 Jul 2012, 06:06 Volcanoes in Kamchatka have been relatively calm over the past week. ...moreKVERT reports moderate seismicity and a thermal anomaly over Bezymianny volcano visible on satellite data. [ less] [ read all] Mon, 30 Jul 2012, 16:26 Fri, 27 Jul 2012, 10:24 No particularly unusual volcanic activity is taking place at the moment. Mainly based on the latest Smithsonian / USGS activity report, webcams and other sources, the following is a brief summary: ...moreAmbrym (Vanuatu): The lava lakes on Ambrym are very active and a significant SO2 plume is usually seen drifting from the volcano by NOAA's satellite. [ less] [ read all] Wed, 25 Jul 2012, 14:19 Volcanic activity worldwide in the past weeks has mostly featured the usual, semi-permanently active volcanoes. ...more [ read all] Thu, 28 Jun 2012, 16:55  Live data viewed with our webcams.volcanodiscovery.com tool The intense seismic swarm at El Hierro volcano continues with more than 100 quakes > M1.5 so far today. The quakes are concentrated underneath the El Julan coast, and some of the most recent quakes today have been at significantly shallower levels, 15-17 km, and indicate that magma now has started to rise. ...morePEVOLCA in a press release admits that significant inflation has been observed since the onset of the seismic swarm, confirming that the cause of it is new magma. Although it is not certain at all that it will, an eruption should be expected to occur any time now. The most likely area is probably the El Julan coast or further south in the Las Calmas Sea. We have updated our interactive webcam viewer to include some of the publicly available seismic and deformation data: webcams.volcanodiscovery.com/ElHierro [ less] [ read all] Wed, 27 Jun 2012, 09:11  Location and depth map of the quakes beneath El Hierro during the past 36 hours. The red bullets ion the Las Calmas sea only started in the June 26 afternoon. The most interesting volcano-related event at the moment is certainly the seismic crisis on El Hierro where the high-intensity earthquake swarm accompanied by tremor episodes continues. The quakes, still at "safe" 20 km depth, have now migrated to the El Julan coast where magma could be accumulating. ...moreMexico:Gas and steam venting picked-up at Popocatepetl volcano in the past 24 hours. The seismic signals from a train of exhalations is visible on the enclosed seismogram beginning at 16 UTC. SO2 output from the volcano had increased the past few days.  SO2 plume from Popo during 26 June  Typical seismic signal from Santiaguito with explosion and rock-fall signals (INSIVUMEH) [ less] [ read all] Tue, 26 Jun 2012, 06:27 A new eruption might be under way at El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain). Following several weaker swarms in the past weeks, a strong swarm started late on 24 June and increased dramatically to more than 200 earthquakes of M1.5 or more, including volcanic tremor. The quakes locations indicated that magma was moving at depth from N towards the S in a similar way as at the start of the 2011 submarine eruption. Therefore, the possibility of renewed eruptive activity is real. ...moreThe hypocenter of the seismicity is still relatively deep (around 20 km) though since the volcano has already generated a channel for magma to ascend during the previous eruption in 2011-12, the timeline for rise and eruption of any "new" magma may be much shorter. 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