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Indonesia: Mount Marapi Erupts, Sending Ash Column 1.6 km Above Summit 3

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted this morning, August 12, sending an ash column up to 1,600 meters above the summit.

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Indonesia: Mount Marapi Erupts, Sending Ash Column 1.6 km Above Summit 2

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted this morning, August 12, sending an ash column up to 1,600 meters above the summit.

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Indonesia: Mount Marapi Erupts, Sending Ash Column 1.6 km Above Summit

Mount Marapi in West Sumatra erupted this morning, August 12, sending an ash column up to 1,600 meters above the summit.

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Italy: Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Smoke and Ash Over Sicily 5

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

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Italy: Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Smoke and Ash Over Sicily 2

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

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Italy: Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Smoke and Ash Over Sicily 3

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

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Italy: Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Smoke and Ash Over Sicily 4

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

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Italy: Mount Etna Erupts, Spewing Smoke and Ash Over Sicily

Mount Etna erupted in Sicily, Italy, spewing smoke and ash on Monday, June 2. The Toulouse Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre warned that the volcanic ash plume could reach approximately 6,400 meters.

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Mexico: Dec 19 – Popocatépetl Volcano Continues Eruption

Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano continued to erupt on Thursday, December 19. The Volcanic Traffic Light Alert remains at Yellow Phase 2.

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Mexico: Popocatépetl Unleashes Dozens Of Exhalations, Yellow Phase 2 Alert Remains

Popocatépetl, one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes, was placed on a Yellow Phase 2 alert level after more than 30 exhalations of water vapor, gases, and ash were recorded on Monday, December 16.

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Philippines: Kanlaon Volcano Raises Alert Level After Two Consecutive Ash Eruptions 2

After Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island spewed ash twice on Monday, December 2, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) raised its alert level to 2, stating it was monitoring a "possible major eruption."

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Mexico: Popocatépetl Volcano Erupts And Spews Ash Plume 2

Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupted on Thursday, October 17, sending ash high into the sky. The Volcanic Traffic Light Alert was set at Yellow Phase 2.

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Mexico: Popocatépetl Volcano Erupts And Spews Ash Plume

Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano erupted on Thursday, October 17, sending ash high into the sky. The Volcanic Traffic Light Alert was set at Yellow Phase 2.

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Iceland: State Of Emergency Declared Due To New Volcanic Eruption

A new volcano erupted on Thursday, August 22, outside the town of Grindavík in southwestern Iceland, prompting a state of emergency to be declared. Roads were closed, and several areas, including the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, were forced to evacuate due to plumes of toxic gas.

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Italy: Etna Spews Tall Plume Of Volcanic Ash During July 23 Eruption, Airport Closed 3

Etna erupted on early Tuesday, July 23, spewing a tall plume of volcanic ash. The airport in Catania was closed due to the eruption at Etna’s Voragine crater that produced an ash column more than 4 km above sea level.

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Italy: Etna Spews Tall Plume Of Volcanic Ash During July 23 Eruption, Airport Closed 2

Etna erupted on early Tuesday, July 23, spewing a tall plume of volcanic ash. The airport in Catania was closed due to the eruption at Etna’s Voragine crater that produced an ash column more than 4 km above sea level.

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Italy: Etna Spews Tall Plume Of Volcanic Ash During July 23 Eruption, Airport Closed

Etna erupted on early Tuesday, July 23, spewing a tall plume of volcanic ash. The airport in Catania was closed due to the eruption at Etna’s Voragine crater that produced an ash column more than 4 km above sea level.

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Italy: Miles High Plume Of Volcanic Ash Billows From Stromboli In July 11 Eruption

Stromboli erupted anew on Thursday, July 11, sending a tall plume of volcanic ash into the sky and causing a pyroclastic flow that reached the coastline and extended several meters into the sea.

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Italy: Etna Spews Lava In Spectacular Recent Eruption 2

Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano, increased its volcanic activity and erupted this week, sending ash and lava into the air in Sicily. Lava activity was observed in the Voragine crater.

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Italy: Stromboli Erupts Following Gradual Increase In Volcanic Activity

Lava and pyroclastic flows were recorded in Stromboli in its recent eruption on July 4, a day after a gradual increase of volcanic activity was observed. Red alert level was raised after pyroclastic flows were observed reaching the coastline and extending several hundred meters into the sea.

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Italy: Etna Spews Lava In Spectacular Recent Eruption

Etna, Europe's tallest active volcano, increased its volcanic activity and erupted this week, sending ash and lava into the air in Sicily. Lava activity was observed in the Voragine crater.

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Iceland: Grindavik Volcano New Eruption

A volcano in southwestern Iceland, near the famous Blue Lagoon, erupted for the fifth time since December on Wednesday, May 29. Authorities declared a state of emergency, but air traffic was not significantly affected, and flights continued as usual at Reykjavik’s Keflavik airport. This video, filmed on Thursday, shows lava covering a road in Grindavik.

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Indonesia: Marapi Volcano Spews 1.5 KM-High Ash Column

Mount Marapi in Indonesia's West Sumatra erupted again on Wednesday, April 3. Local authorities said that the ash column spewed by the volcano reached 1,500 meters above the peak.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 6

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 8

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 7

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 9

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 10

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Spewing Huge Plumes Of Smoke And Lava 5

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023. This video filmed by British Ambassador to Iceland Dr. Bryony Mathew from an airplane departing from Reykjavik on Thursday morning shows the erupting volcano.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Sending Huge Plumes Of Smoke 3

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Sending Huge Plumes Of Smoke 2

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Prompts Evacuation Of Popular Spa

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Iceland: Volcano Erupts For 3rd Time Since December, Sending Huge Plumes Of Smoke 4

A volcano system on a mountain ridge on the Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland erupted on Thursday morning, February 8. Blue Lagoon, the nearby popular geothermal spa site was evacuated. It was the 3rd volcano eruption since December 2023.

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Italy: Etna Puts On Spectacular Show During Early Morning Eruption

Mount Etna continued its Strombolian activity on December 1, putting a spectacular show during an eruption in the early morning hours.

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Road blocked due to volcano eruption alert

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A road is blocked in Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014, due to a volcanic warning for Mt. Iwo.

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Warning issued against possible eruption of Mt. Iwo

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mt. Iwo in southern Kyushu is photographed from a helicopter flying over Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014. The city imposed a 1-kilometer exclusion zone in the area the same day, following a volcanic warning issued by the meteorological authority. The nearby Fudo pond is seen in the background.

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Volcanic quakes continue at Mt. Asama

TOKYO, Japan - Volcanic tremors continue at Mt. Asama on Sept. 20 following an emergency warning issued the previous day by the Meteorological Agency that the mountain could erupt soon. An average of 10 to 30 volcanic earthquakes per hour were produced by the 2,568-meter mountain, which straddles Gunma and Nagano prefectures in central Japan, the agency said.

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Vessel surveys Mt. Oyama's volcanic activities

MIYAKEJIMA, Japan - A Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel conducts surveys on 813-meter Mt. Oyama (in the background) on Miyakejima, a small island 180 kilometers south of Tokyo, on June 27 after a warning for an imminent volcanic eruption on the island was issued.

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Volcanic Alert Raised for Mt. Zao in Northeastern Japan

Miyagi and Yamagata, Japan -Jan. 30: Japan's weather agency raised Tuesday the alert level for Mt. Zao, a volcano near a popular ski area in northeastern Japan, citing the detection of volcanic tremors and warning of the possibility of a small eruption. The alert on a scale of five has been raised from 1, which only indicates the "potential" for increased activity, to 2, a level advising　People to refrain from approaching the crater, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. The agency warned that an area within an approximately 1.2-kilometer radius of the crater could see rocks raining down from　above if a small eruption occurs. Mt. Zao straddles the border between prefectures of Miyagi and　Yamagata. According to the weather agency, volcanic tremors, caused by　movements of hot subterranean water and volcanic gas, were observed over a period of 31 minutes from 2:18 p.m. on Tuesday and were larger than those recorded on Sunday and early Tuesday morning.

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Eruption warning issued for Mt. Usu

ABUTA, Japan - People living near Mt. Usu (shown in photo) in southern Hokkaido are warned March 28 to brace for a possible large volcanic eruption following reports of heightened seismic activity at the mountain. The Meteorological Agency issued an emergency volcano warning at 2:50 a.m. after the frequency of tremors at the 732-meter peak began accelerating. The photo was taken by a Kyodo helicopter.

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Hot-spring resort town hands tourists sweets after warning lifted

Nobuo Yamaguchi (R), mayor of Hakone, distributes bean-jam buns to tourists at Hakone Yumoto station in the town southwest of Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2015, to express gratitude for visiting the popular hot spring resort area, a week after the national weather agency lifted its volcanic activity warning for Mt. Hakone. Small-scale eruptions of the volcano earlier this year caused a dent in the number of people visiting Hakone. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Warning level of Sakurajima falls to 2

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2015, shows the Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency lowered its warning level to 2 from 3 on a 5-point scale on the day, as volcanic activities have remained weak. After raising the alert level to 4, the highest ever, in August, the agency lowered it to 3 on Sept. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Warning level of Sakurajima falls to 2

Photo taken Nov. 25, 2015, shows the Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency lowered its warning level to 2 from 3 on a 5-point scale on the day, as volcanic activities have remained weak. After raising the alert level to 4, the highest ever, in August, the agency lowered it to 3 on Sept. 1. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Okama crater of Mt. Zao, northeastern Japan

The Okama crater of Mt. Zao in northeastern Japan is seen on April 13, 2015. The Japan Meteorological Agency's Sendai Regional Headquarters on June 16, 2015, lifted a volcanic warning, in place since April, for the mountain straddling Miyagi and Yamagata prefectures. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Near-crater warning issued at Mt. Zao

Photo taken on April 13, 2015, from a Kyodo News airplane shows the crater of Mt. Zao in northeastern Japan, for which the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a near-crater warning the same day as small eruptions may occur there in the face of an increase in volcanic temblors. The last time Mt. Zao erupted was April 1940. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Near-crater warning issued at Mt. Zao

Photo taken on April 13, 2015, from a Kyodo News airplane shows the crater of Mt. Zao in northeastern Japan, for which the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a near-crater warning the same day as small eruptions may occur there in the face of an increase in volcanic temblors. The last time Mt. Zao erupted was April 1940. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Near-crater warning issued at Mt. Zao

Photo taken on April 13, 2015, from a Kyodo News airplane shows the crater of Mt. Zao in northeastern Japan, for which the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a near-crater warning the same day as small eruptions may occur there in the face of an increase in volcanic temblors. The last time Mt. Zao erupted was April 1940. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Road blocked due to volcano eruption alert

MIYAZAKI, Japan - A road is blocked in Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014, due to a volcanic warning for Mt. Iwo. (Kyodo)

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Warning issued against possible eruption of Mt. Iwo

FUKUOKA, Japan - Mt. Iwo in southern Kyushu is photographed from a helicopter flying over Ebino, Miyazaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Oct. 24, 2014. The city imposed a 1-kilometer exclusion zone in the area the same day, following a volcanic warning issued by the meteorological authority. The nearby Fudo pond is seen in the background. (Kyodo)

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Volcanic quakes continue at Mt. Asama

TOKYO, Japan - Volcanic tremors continue at Mt. Asama on Sept. 20 following an emergency warning issued the previous day by the Meteorological Agency that the mountain could erupt soon. An average of 10 to 30 volcanic earthquakes per hour were produced by the 2,568-meter mountain, which straddles Gunma and Nagano prefectures in central Japan, the agency said.