This Week in Volcano News; Mount Etna Erupts, Krakatau Lava Fountain

This week saw a new volcanic eruption briefly occur at the Mount Etna volcano in Italy. Meanwhile, Krakatau produced a 1 kilometer high lava fountain, representing an unusually high type of this feature from a typically more explosive volcano. And, in Japan, there is a chance that the alert level of the Azumayama volcano might be raised in response to a slow increase of low frequency earthquakes and volcanic tremor events. This video will discuss these stories & list the 42 volcanoes which are actively erupting across the planet. Thumbnail Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, This image was overlaid with text in addition to GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo and the image border). Note: This video’s thumbnail image does not display Mount Etna, but rather a June 26th 2018 photo of a Kilauea volcano produced lava flow in Hawaii. Kilauea is not erupting and Mount Etna is