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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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![Mt. Sinabung Spews Ash, Sulfur Dioxide](/s3/migrated/2021-03-02-lrgiod.gif)
Japan’s Himawari-8 satellite saw a series of eruptions from Mt. Sinabung, in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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![Russian Volcano Spews Ash Over the Pacific](/s3/migrated/20191112-Sheveluchvolcano.jpg)
The Suomi-NPP satellite captured this image of the Sheveluch volcano erupting on Nov. 12, 2019, which affected flights over…
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![Volcanic Ash Plume on Island Off Madagascar Seen by NOAA-20](/s3/migrated/20190815-reunionisland.jpg)
The NOAA-20 satellite spied the Piton de la Fournaise volcano on Réunion Island, off the Eastern coast of Madagascar,…
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![Suomi NPP Satellite Monitors Pavlof Volcano Eruption](/s3/migrated/pavlof_volcano.jpg)
Data from polar-orbiting satellites provide forecasters with critical information on hazards like ash from volcanic…
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![Earth from Orbit: La Soufrière Erupts](/s3/2021-06/2021_04_15_LaSoufriereErupts_Still.png)
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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![Popocatépetl Volcano Erupts in Mexico](/s3/2023-05/2023_05_25_Popocate%CC%81petl_Volcano_Erupts.png)
Mexico’s Popocatépetl Volcano, whose name is the Aztec word for smoking mountain, began belching out towering clouds of ash…
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![NOAA-20 Spies Volcanic Activity at Mount Etna](/s3/migrated/20190913-MtEtna.jpg)
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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![Holy Stromboli! Views of Mt. Etna’s Eruptions](/s3/migrated/20210223_etnasm.gif)
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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![Airlines, Observatories, and Others Keep Tabs on Volcanic Activity with VOLCAT](/s3/2021-10/news-101-a.gif)
Every day, NOAA satellites contribute data to a suite of products known as VOLCAT (or Volcanic Cloud Analysis Toolkit),…
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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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![GOES-R The Future of Forecasting](/s3/migrated/goes_r_future_of_weather_forecasting.jpg)
Improves every product from current GOES Imager and will offer new products for severe weather forecasting, fire and smoke…
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![SUOMI NPP DATA USED FOR MITIGATING AVIATION RELATED VOLCANIC HAZARDS](/s3/2021-10/news-image-45-a.jpg)
An aviation "orange" alert was posted on August 18, 2014, for Bárðarbunga, a stratovolcano located under the…
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![Mount Agung Erupts in Bali, Indonesia](/s3/migrated/2154v1_20171127-OMI-Agung.jpg)
Data from NASA’s Aura satellite shows the high sulfur dioxide concentrations associated with the volcanic eruption of Mount…