The Daily Mail News Report had some great pictures of the ongoing activity at Tungurahua!
(image credit: USGS, Story from MSNBC)
Kamoamoa, which cracked open Saturday, is continuing to spew out loads of lava and gases. Meanwhile, visitors flock to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park hoping to catch a glimpse of the 2,000-degree Fahrenheit (1,093-degree Celsius) glowing, red-orange lava that is shooting 65 feet (20 meters) high. But visitors are being kept far away from the isolated, remote east zone rift where the eruption is taking place.
March 5, 2011. View looking at the NE end of the actively propagating fissure located between Pu`u `Ō `ō and Napau. Lava is just breaking the surface in foreground crack. (Image and Caption from the HVO)
Tom Pfieffer from Volcano Discovery.com (http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/) has just come back from an expedition to Erta Ale!
He reports that "Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia recently became very active as we found out on our last expedition, when we stayed on the volcano from 25-28 Nov.
The lava lake in the south crater had largely filled up the crater with and overflows started to invade the caldera, completely reshaping the area!"
To see the images he has posted from this trip, visit:
http://www.volcanodiscovery.com/photos/erta-ale-dallol/nov10.html
(image credit: Tom Pfeiffer)
