NASA spots lava leaking from Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego
NASA spots lava leaking from Guatemala's Volcán de Fuego
At the peak of activity, the plume rose to 2,800 feet.
By Brooks Hays | Sept. 9, 2016 at 4:16 PM
GUATEMALA CITY, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Volcán de Fuego, Guatemala's "Volcano of Fire," sprung a leak this week. As new imagery from NASA reveals, the volcano's caldera is aglow in escaped lava.
NASA's Operational Land Imager, a camera on the Landsat 8 satellite, captured images of the volcano as it passed over Central America on Wednesday.
Though dramatic from an altitude of 560 miles, the appearance of fresh ash plume and a lava flow from Volcán de Fuego aren't all that surprising. The volcano, which is positioned 40 miles east of Guatemala City, is one of the most active in Central America.
Scientists with the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology of Guatemala, INSIVUMEH, say the volcanic activity began on Sunday.
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