Mt. Fitzherbert

Potential ash hazards: Wind forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), coupled with eruption models, show that any ash clouds rising above the crater rim today would drift mostly southward to southeastward.

Recent observations: The crater is clear this morning except for a small steam plume rising from the growing lava dome. A magnitude 3.1 occurred at 6:46 this morning. In addition, a few small rockfalls are evident in the seismic record from the past 24 hours, but the small “drumbeat” earthquakes that have occurred with great regularity during much of the eruption are barely noticeable.