Volcanic activity world-wide 16-17 October 2012 [1]

Source: VolcanoDiscovery.com [2] - By T, 10/17/12

Fukutoku-Okanoba eruption in February, 2010.

A new submarine eruption was observed from Fukutoku-Okanoba [3] volcano in the Volcano Islands of Japan on Tuesday morning, October 16th. Japanese Coast Guard observed a column of white smoke rising from the sea about 3 miles from Minami-Iwoto island. According to a report "the volcano spewed ash and smoke about 100 meters into the air, and the surrounding sea area changed to a yellowish-green color while other parts became a cloudy gray".

The number of explosions of Popocatépetl [4] volcano in Mexico has been increasing further. During 15-16 Oct, 71 were recorded by CENAPRED. Some of these produced ash plumes rising up to 1.5 km above the crater, notably at 18:05 h local time on 15 Oct, 04:39 h and 09:43 h on 16 Oct.
Glow is visible above the crater at night, and a SO2 plume is visible regularly on NOAA's satellite images.

Activity from Fuego volcano [5] in Guatemala remains mainly effusive with an active 600 m long lava flow and only occasional weak strombolian explosions.

The lava flows from Santiaguito [6] were reported to be inactive this morning. A small steam explosion occurred this morning, INSIVUMEH reported.

MODIS satellite data continues to show a hotspot at Heard Island volcano [7].

After a short burst of quakes on 15 Oct, earthquake activity at El Hierro Island [8] has calmed down to an average of 5-6 weak events per day.

When our current group of the Fascination Volcano tour [9] visited Santorini's Nea Kameni today, we verified that tourists can trigger tremor and volcanic earthquakes [10]!