The very regular pattern of paroxysms (lava-fountaining episodes) continues at the volcano. After a slightly longer interval of about 24 hours since the last one, yet another paroxysm occurred yesterday evening.
It followed the same sequence of events as usual: first signs of new activity began around 16:20 local time when volcanic tremor started to rise, followed by strombolian explosions appearing at the New SE crater shortly after.
An hour and half later, this activity had reached lava fountaining stage by 17:48 and an eruptive column rose to approx. 5 km altitude, i.e. significantly lower than during the previous eruptions.
As lava fountains set in, lava over-spilled the southern rim and created another lava flow towards the SW, overlapping the numerous previous flows in this area. At 19:05, the lava fountains ceased and activity returned to intermittent strombolian explosions that ceased by around 22:40, when then eruption was essentially over.
As to the effusive fissure at the lower SE flank of the New SE crater cone, which has opened during the paroxysm on Thursday 24 June, it became active again during this episode and produced a weakly alimented lava flow that reached a few hundred meters length. It remained active during much of the night, but then gradually weakened. By early morning today, it seems to have stopped.
