Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Réunion, France): new eruption starts this morning following 2 days of seismic crisis

A new eruption has begun at the volcano this morning. At 09:48, the volcano observatory recorded the onset of typical eruption tremor and announced the eruption which seems to take place from new fissures on the NNE flank of Dolomieu crater in the central part of the Enclos. The eruption came as expected: a seismic crisis had started two days earlier (on 16 Feb), indicating that magma had…