Just two days since the preceding one, another paroxysm occurred at the New SE crater over last night 14-15 June 2021. As the intervals had been longer and the beginning of the most recent paroxysms was generally a longer period of fluctuating and overall increasing activity, it came a bit as a surprise.
Very weak and intermittent strombolian activity restarted at the crater probably during the afternoon or early evening yesterday. At around 22:56, this activity began to increase quickly, along with a sharp increase of volcanic tremor to high values. By 23:45 had reached the stage of continuous, tall lava fountains rising several hundred meters. The eruption column produced an ash plume that rose to approx. 6000 m above sea level. The peak phase occurred around midnight and lasted until about 00:20, when activity – as usual – dropped sharply and more or less ceased.
As during the previous paroxysms, some of the lava formed a flow issued from the southern part of the crater and traveling to the SW.
Link: Video of the eruption (Roberto Viglianisi / facebook)
