This Week in Volcano News; Mexico City Volcano Erupts, Mt. Saint Helens Landslide

This week saw a new volcanic eruption occur which was visible from Mexico City, involving a nearly 500 meter high lava fountain. This occurred at the Popocatepetl volcano 65 kilometers to the southeast of Mexico city, which produced a violent strombolian eruption. Meanwhile, a large landslide occurred at the Mount Saint Helens volcano, blocking a major road. And, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, an increase in eruptive intensity occurred at the Nyamuragira volcano. This video will discuss these stories & list the 41 volcanoes which are actively erupting across the planet. Thumbnail Photo Credit: J.D. Griggs, U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, This image was then overlaid with text in addition to GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo and the image border). Note: This image does not showcase the last 7 days of eruptive activity at the Popocatepetl volcano. As it instead is an image from the June 30, 1984 lava fountain from the Kilauea volcano which is not erupting as of May 19th, 2023. If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: ) (YouTube membership: ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: ) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: ) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under “fair use“. If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at tccatron@ and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video’s thumbnail image: Public Domain: CC BY 3.0 NZ: CC BY 4.0: Sources/Citations: [1] Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department [2] INGV (Italy) [3] Servicio Geologico Minero Argentino (Argentina) [4] ONEMI (Chile) [5] Geonet (New Zealand), Information on the site is largely (but not all content on the site falls under the CC BY 3.0 NZ license) licensed under a CC BY 3.0 NZ license [6] Tonga Geological Services [7] PVMBG (Indonesia) [8] / Iceland Met Office [9] Phivolcs (Philippines) [10] U.S. Geological Survey [11] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory [12] Alaska Volcano Observatory [13] Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department [14] INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL (Ecuador) [15] OVSICORI-UNA (Costa Rica) [16] Sernageomin (Chile) [17] Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Russia) [18] Japanese Meteorological Agency [19] Servicio Geologico Colombiano [20] Yellowstone Volcano Observatory [21] Observatoire Volcanologique Piton de la Fournaise [22] VEIs, dates/years, composition, tephra layer name, DRE estimates, and bulk tephra volume estimates for volcanic eruptions shown in this video which were assigned a VEI 4 or larger without an asterisk after their name are sourced from the LaMEVE database (British Geological Survey © UKRI), Used with Permission 0:00 Masaya Volcano Erupts 0:37 This Week’s Top Stories 1:04 Popocatepetl Eruption 2:48 Saint Helens Landslide 3:42 Nyamuragira 4:22 Full List of Erupting Volcanoes 4:34 Conclusion