This Week in Volcano News; Major African Eruption, Kilauea Erupts

This week, the largest volcanic eruption of 2025 occurred in Ethiopia, generating a plume of ash that even ended up drifting over Mount Everest. Meanwhile, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano produced another series of 500+ foot high lava fountains. And, in Indonesia, a cyclone has disrupted monitoring of a volcano with a likely ongoing magmatic intrusion; Bur ni Telong. Today's video will discuss these stories through the opinion and analysis of a geologist and list the 43 world volcanoes that are actively erupting.

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Sources/Citations:
[1] La Rosa A, Pagli C, Keir D, Ayele A, Wang H, Rivalta E and Lewi E (2025) Segmented dike intrusion linked to multi-level magma storage during and before the 2025 eruption at Erta Ale (East Africa). Front. Earth Sci. 13:1719687. doi: 10.3389/feart.2025.1719687, CC BY 4.0.
[2] NASA Worldview, EOSDIS Worldview, (Satellite imagery: Terra / MODIS, Aqua / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, NOAA-21 / VIIRS), (Thermal signatures: Terra / MODIS, NOAA-20 / VIIRS, Aqua / MODIS), at https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
[3] Sernageomin
[4] U.S. Geological Survey
[5] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
[6] Phivolcs
[7] Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department
[8] Servicio Geológico Colombiano
[9] Instituto Geofísico Escuela Politécnica Nacional
[10] Alaska Volcano Observatory
[11] University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
[12] Geonet (New Zealand)
[13] CIVISA (Azores)
[14] Rabaul Volcano Observatory
[15] Japanese Meteorological Agency
[16] Vedur.is / Iceland Met Office
[17] PVMBG (Indonesia) (Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi) (Indonesia)
[18] Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department
[19] Tonga Geological Services
[20] Observatorio Vulcanológico y Sismológico de Costa Rica (OVSICORI)
[21] CIVISA
[22] IVAR (Instituto de Investigação em Vulcanologia e Avaliação de Riscos)

0:00 Yasur Erupts
1:05 Ethiopia Eruption
3:00 Kilauea Eruption
4:18 Bur ni Telong
5:36 List of Erupting Volcanoes