Mt. Fitzherbert

Time lapse movie taken during past week

Potential ash hazards: Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that any ash clouds that rise above the crater rim today would drift broadly southward to eastward at low altitudes. Higher altitude clouds would drift east-northeastward.

Recent observations: Seismicity remains largely unchanged, and rockfalls continue to occur from the growing lava dome. This week field crews will move GPS stations on the volcano's flanks, obtain new aerial photographs and thermal imagery, retrieve data from a remote seismometer, and check for samples in an ash collection spider in the crater.