Volcanoes Today, 1 Feb 2013 - recent updates on world-wide volcanic activity [1]
Source: Volcano Discovery [2] - 2/01/13
Stromboli (Eolian Islands, Italy) [6]: The volcano has returned to low to medium levels of activity. Explosions have become significantly smaller.
Etna (Sicily, Italy) [7]: Etna is calm this morning, but some weak ash emissions are occurring from the New SE crater.
Popocatépetl (Central Mexico) [8]: (31 Jan) Glow remains brightly visible at night. The rate of weak steam/gas/ash emissions was about 1 per hour since yesterday.
Santa María / Santiaguito (Guatemala) [9]: (31 Jan) Activity was low today. Only some small explosions and few small to moderately sized avalanches from the active flows were reported.
Fuego (Guatemala) [10]: (31 Jan) Both explosive and effusive activity have been low today.
Only 4 weak explosions with ash plumes rising about 300 m were counted, and the lava flow was only 150 m long this morning.
Arenal (Costa Rica) [11]: (31 Jan) The volcano had shown some increased seismicity at the end of December, but has calmed down again.
Copahue (Chile/Argentina border) [12]: (31 Jan) SERNAGEOMIN reported a decrease in seismic activity. No new surface activity was noted, but the alert level remains at orange.
Heard (Australia, Southern Indian Ocean) [13]: (31 Jan) A thermal hot spot remains visible at the summit crater on MODIS satellite data, suggesting that some activity continues there.
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