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Archive: Mon Apr 2024

Another explosive eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia

12 days after its powerful eruption on 17 April, 10-minute JMA Himawari-9 AHI Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed another explosive eruption of Mount Ruang in Indonesia on 29 April 2024. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures reached -90ºC (internal yellow pixels) at 1850 UTC, shortly after eruption onset. Note that the volcanic umbrella cloud exhibited concentric... Read More