Sangay volcano (Ecuador): glowing lava bombs thrown from crater

Scoria and bombs showered the summit area and caused incandescent avalanches (image: IGEPN)

The effusive-explosive eruption of the volcano continues.

A larger glowing rockfall event in combination with strombolian-type explosion occurred at the volcano in the evening of 31 March.
Much of the ejected incandescent material was thrown at an approx. height of several hundred meters and slid down along the north-northeast flank.

An ash plume sent pyroclastic material to 6,1 and 6,4 km height and drifted west-southwest.

Sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions reached to a 2169 tonnes on 31 March at about 19:00 local time.

Source: Instituto Geofísico volcano activity update 1 April 2022