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 Latest news from Yasur:Monday, Apr 08, 2013
An increase in explosive activity has been noted since 2 April. Bombs have been ejected to the parking area below the summit cone, and the activity status (on a scale of 1-4) was raised from 1 to 2. If activity remains elevated, it will probably be further raised to 3 in the near future.
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Tuesday, Mar 12, 2013
Strombolian activity has been comparably low recently and the volcanic activity level has been set to 1.
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Yasur volcanostratovolcano 361 m (1,184 ft)
Tanna Island, Vanuatu, -19.53°S / 169.44°E Current status: erupting (4 out of 5) Yasur webcams / live data [hide map] [enlarge map]
Last update: 8 Apr 2013
Typical eruption style: persistent strombolian activity Yasur volcano eruptions: ongoing since at least AD 1774 (but likely many centuries before) Yasur Volcano Photos Last earthquakes nearby:
Background:Yasur, the best-known and most frequently visited of the Vanuatu volcanoes, has been in more-or-less continuous strombolian and vulcanian activity since Captain Cook observed ash eruptions in 1774. This style of activity may have continued for the past 800 years. Yasur, located at the SE tip of Tanna Island, is a mostly unvegetated 361-m-high pyroclastic cone with a nearly circular, 400-m-wide summit crater. Yasur is largely contained within the small Yenkahe caldera and is the youngest of a group of Holocene volcanic centers constructed over the down-dropped NE flank of the Pleistocene Tukosmeru volcano. The Yenkahe horst is located within the Siwi ring fracture, a 4-km-wide, horseshoe-shaped caldera associated with eruption of the andesitic Siwi pyroclastic sequence. Active tectonism along the Yenkahe horst accompanying eruptions of Yasur has raised Port Resolution harbor more than 20 m during the past century.(source: Global Volcansim Project) Yasur Photos:
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