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 southeastward early in the day and eastward later.

Recent observations: As we celebrate the third New Years Day of the current dome-building eruption, the volcano maintains its typical pattern of seismicity and slow extrusion of lava. In the coming year CVO will be completing a new telemetry system for transmitting data from field instruments back to the observatory and continuing to monitor and study the eruption. In addition, later in the year, we will publish a volume of more than 35 research papers from USGS and university authors on various aspects of the ongoing eruption.