Soufriere Hills Volcano Resumes Activity

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December 28 - 28, 2009JPEG

Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat continues to erupt regularly. These two natural-color satellite images were taken 3 hours apart at 10:45 a.m. (top) and 1:45 p.m. (lower) local time on December 28, 2009. During that time, the volcanic plume dispersed and moved west.

The images were taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites, respectively.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response, Goddard Space Flight Center. The Rapid Response Team provides twice-daily images of this region. Caption by Robert Simmon.

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A pair of images from December 28, 2009, shows ash plumes from Soufrière Hills volcano on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in the morning and afternoon.

Instruments:: Aqua — MODIS; Terra — MODIS

Soufriere Hills Volcano Resumes Activity

After 10 months of relative quiet, Soufriere Hills Volcano on the Caribbean island Montserrat resumed activity in early October 2009. It remained active in early 2010, covering large areas with pyroclastic flows.