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Bulletin of the Global Volcanism Network (March 2007)

All information contained in these reports is preliminary and subject to change.

Linked volcano names (below) go to the report for this month within all of the Smithsonian reports for that volcano. Select "Complete Issue" to see all the reports for this month.

Nyamuragira (DR Congo)

November 2006 eruption produces extensive lava flows

Nyiragongo (DR Congo)

Summit lava lake persists; studies on volcano, and Lake Kivu gases

Etna (Italy)

Eruptions continue in April 2007

Dukono (Halmahera, Indonesia)

Early 2007 ash plume and occasional thermal anomalies

Semeru (Java, Indonesia)

Minor ash eruptions continue into February 2007

Ritter Island (Papua New Guinea)

Small eruptions, in 2002 and another in October 2006

Tinakula (Solomon Islands)

Thermal anomalies suggest eruptions, but field reports absent

Heard (S Indian Ocean)

Thermal anomalies ~ 300 m apart may suggest two vents

Ruapehu (North Island, New Zealand)

Crater lake tephra dam bursts on 18 March 2007

Unnamed (E Pacific Rise at 9.82°N)

Fresh lava flows documented along ridge for over 15 km

Shiveluch (Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia)

Ash plumes continued through at least April 2007

Editors: Rick Wunderman, Edward Venzke, Sally Kuhn Sennert
Volunteer Staff: Robert Andrews, Hugh Replogle, Michael Young, Paul Berger, Jerome Hudis, Jacquelyn Gluck, Margo Morell, Stephen Bentley, Antonia Bookbinder, and Jeremy Bookbinder


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