The activity has been stable over the past few days.
Given the poor weather conditions yesterday, scientists estimate the unchanged activity within the steep-sided spatter cone. Weak spattering continues to feed the flow of lava traveling directly into lava tubes and remains essentially hidden from view in the vicinity of the volcano, it emerges somewhere downslope at an altitude of 1300 meters. The lava flow discharge rate was not able to detect due to bad local conditions yesterday.
The seismic activity remains low in general. Seismic recordings registered 4 volcano-tectonic earthquakes over the past 24 hours.
Ground deformation instruments continue to detect the summit area inflated at low levels since mid-July, indicating a repressurization of the volcano’s magma chamber system located beneath the summit.
Source: Observatoire volcanologique du Piton de la Fournaise volcano activity update 7 August 2023