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There are more than 1,500 potentially active volcanoes around the world, most of which are unmonitored, and roughly 500 are…
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Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite saw a series of eruptions from Mt. Sinabung, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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The Suomi-NPP satellite captured this image of the Sheveluch volcano erupting on Nov. 12, 2019, which affected flights over…
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The NOAA-20 satellite spied the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, off the Eastern coast of Madagascar,…
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Data from polar-orbiting satellites provide forecasters with critical information on hazards like ash from volcanic…
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On the morning of April 9, 2021, La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent began erupting, spewing ash…
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Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, began belching out towering clouds of ash…
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Mount Etna, the famous volcano on the Italian island of Sicily, has been spewing ash and red-hot chunks of lava known as “…
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The pastel imagery above is an Ash RGB product captured by Europe’s Meteosat-11 satellite on Feb. 21 and Feb 23, 2021. Based…
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Every day, NOAA satellites contribute data to a suite of products known as VOLCAT (or Volcanic Cloud Analysis Toolkit),…
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Improves every product from current GOES Imager and will offer new products for severe weather forecasting, fire and smoke…
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Notice of Changes Last Updated: 8/21/20 Name of product or service: GOES-R Volcanic Ash: Detection and Height Type of change…
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An aviation "orange" alert was posted on August 18, 2014, for Bárðarbunga, a stratovolcano located under the…
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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai, located in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga, has erupted three times in less than thirty days.…