Mt. Fitzherbert

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 northwestward in the morning and follow a more west-northwestward trajectory in the afternoon.

Recent observations: Clouds again obscure the volcano this morning. Nevertheless, lava continues to extrude and grow the dome. Seismicity continues its ongoing procession of tiny “drumbeat” earthquakes every several minutes. Overall, the rate of seismic energy release remains relatively low, and other monitoring data are within the range of their typical recent values.