>The increasing trend of activity at the volcano ended suddenly last night, when volcanic tremor abruptly fell to lower levels comparable to those before the surge of activity in the past two days.
>In tandem with the volcanic tremor (believed to correlate with magma supply rates), visible lava activity has been significantly lower today as well. Less lava was visible at the surface and the active fronts advanced less than had been feared.
>Still, another 12 hectares of new land have been covered, mostly banana plantations, by the active flow (labelled #4 on official maps) that has been advancing between the cinder cones MontaΓ±as de Todoque and La Laguna, and was about 300 m from the sea earlier today.
>Despite the falling tremor, explosive activity has been quite intense today, with phases of near-continuous lava fountains and strong ash emissions generating a plume that rose to over 3,000 m altitude and drifted in easterly and southeasterly directions.
>Reported gas emissions have increased again, to very high values of 16,000-32,000 tons of SO2 per day, mainly directly from the vents, and 2,300-2,500 tons of CO2, mainly in the form of diffuse emissions from the soil. In the beginning of the eruption, up to 50,000 tons of SO2 were injected into the atmosphere per day.
>Deformation of the ground continues to show a slow trend of deflation. Earthquakes decreased also by about 70 % in intensity and numbers compared to yesterday. During the past 24 hours, there were 3 quakes of magnitudes 4.3-4.6 as well as 33 quakes between 3.0-3.9 (while there were more than 100 yesterday).
So thankfully it seems as though yesterdays sudden massive increase I Posted about last night was more of a burst of energy VS a longterm change in the activity at the volcano.
