The eruptive activity of the volcano continues; glow is visible on the webcam and suggests that indeed lava dome growth has resumed. Satellite data show the ash plume from this morning’s larger eruption is still at 5-6 km altitude a.s.l. continues to drift for about 245 km to the south-west and later west from the volcano. On NASA’s Acqua satellite image from earlier today, a beautiful shadow…
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Agung volcano (Bali, Indonesia): sudden new explosion early this morning leads to ash fall, but no major eruption expected
The volcano erupted again early this morning (30 Dec 2018) at 04:09 local time. A moderately sized sudden explosion lasted for 3 minutes 8 seconds, caused by accumulated overpressure of gasses inside and under the lava plug that had formed on top of the conduit by the magma erupted in the 2017-18 eruption. The Indonesian Volcanological Survey reported that „fire“ (i.e. incandescence) was…