Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Fernandina
in Ecuador

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Fernandina Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 353010
Name: Fernandina
Lat/Lon: -0.37 , -91.55
Event Date: 16 Jan 2020 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: Few people affected
Exposed Population 100km: About 3000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 4
Population Exposure Index PEI: 2
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2020 06:50 UTC

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

The Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report provides information about global volcanism on a weekly basis. Latest Fernandina report has been published on 15 Jan 2020 07:44.
IG reported that a M 4.7 earthquake was recorded at 1642 on 12 January at Fernandina and followed by a swarm of 29 local earthquakes all below M 3.1. A new eruption began just before 1810 from a circumferential fissure located near the E edge of the caldera, at elevations around 1300-1400 m above sea level. Several lava flows descended the E flank; Galapagos National Park rangers witnessed the eruption from the Bol?var Channel station. A gas cloud rose 1.5-2 km above the fissure and drifted WNW. A second peak in seismicity was recorded 30-40 minutes after the eruption onset and then gradually decreased. Gas emissions decreased sometime after 2100 and thermal anomalies began to gradually diminish. Source: Instituto Geof?sico-Escuela Polit?cnica Nacional (IG)
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Espectacular erupción volcánica en las islas GalápagosTue, 14 Jan 2020 11:27:00 +0100.

El magma deslizándose por las laderas del volcán La Cumbre enciende la noche en las islas Galápagos. Este volcán, uno de los más activos del archipiélago ecuatoriano, entró en erupción el domingo, dejando imágenes impresionantes de flujos d
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Volcán La Cumbre en Ecuador hace erupciónTue, 14 Jan 2020 00:13:00 +0100.

El volcán La Cumbre entró en un proceso de erupción desde la noche del domingo en el archipiélago de Galápagos, pero en las últimas horas ha registrado una reducción de la salida de magma de su cráter, dijo el lunes el Ministerio del Ambien
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18:33 13/01/2020 Equateur: éruption du volcan La Cumbre sur une île in ... Mon, 13 Jan 2020 22:57:00 +0100.

Le volcan La Cumbre, situé sur l'île inhabitée de Fernandina de l'archipel des Galapagos, est en éruption et projette de la lave, ont annoncé, dimanche, les autorités équatoriennes."Le volcan La Cumbre est en éruption ce soir", a annoncé le
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Equateur: éruption du volcan La Cumbre sur une île inhabitée des Galap ... Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:35:00 +0100.

Le volcan La Cumbre, située sur l'île inhabitée de Fernandina de l'archipel des Galapagos, est en éruption et projette de la lave, ont annoncé dimanche les autorités équatoriennes. "Le volcan La Cumbre est en éruption ce soir", a annoncé le
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),