Villarica Summary

 

The intense strombolian activity at the volcano continues.

After nearly about 24 hours since Tuesday's two-vent paroxysm, another such episode of vigorous lava fountaining from the volcano's summit crater occurred last night.
The strong phase, starting at 20:30 local time, sustained almost 10 hours. The height reached by some lava jets surpassed 80 meters throwing hot, fresh and incandescent ejecta which showered the upper eastern slopes of the edifice in the form of glowing avalanches. A width of lava fountains spanned about 150 meters.
Given the past paroxysms that happened so far, Villarrica's tendency seems to produce such events in series at roughly regular intervals of approx. 17-24 hours or so.
The Volcanic Alert Level remains at Yellow with 500 meters exclusion zone around the main crater in place.
Source: Proyecto Observación Villarrica volcano activity update 22 February 2023