Forested volcanoes of the Sulu Range occupy the center of this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top) of west-central New Britain. This group of partially overlapping small stratovolcanoes and lava domes off Bangula Bay reaches heights of about 600 m. Mount Karai, also known as Mount Ruckenberg, lies on the NE side of the geochemically diverse, basaltic-to-rhyolitic complex. Kaiamu maar forms the peninsula extending about 1 km into Bangula Bay at the NW side of the Sulu Range. NASA Landsat7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)
A small explosive eruption of Cleveland on 25 June prompted AVO to raise the Volcano Alert Level and Aviation Color Code. An ash cloud that detached from the volcano was seen on satellite imagery moving S at an estimated altitude of 4.6 km.
SVERT reported that an intense thermal anomaly from Sarychev Peak was detected on satellite imagery during 24-30 June. Gas-and-steam plumes drifted NW, S, and SE.
The Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Program seeks better understanding of all volcanoes through documenting their eruptions — small as well as large — during the past 10,000 years.
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