Nevado del Ruiz volcano has completed its orange activity level for over a month. this means that there is “more likely to explode in days or weeks than in the last decade”. In the middle of the monitoring, the Colombian Geological Service detected a light or red dot.
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The asset monitors the behavior of the volcanic complex minute by minute, thanks to a large number of technological equipment. For example, they have cameras in different places around the volcano to observe in real time. Outside of Earth, they go to satellites.
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel 2 satellite captured Nevado del Ruiz volcano on April 23. The image shows cloudiness and a red dot in the middle.
According to the SGC, this spot is one of the thermal anomalies that “currently exists at the bottom of Arenas crater, indicating heat flow from within the volcano.”
The thermal anomaly is the temperature change at the surface.. Even Luis Fernando Velasco, former director of the National Disaster Risk Management Unit, stated that temperatures could reach 700 °C.
(Continue reading: ‘Government seeks evacuation but nowhere to go’: Nevado del Ruiz residents).
“Along with other indicators, thermal anomalies are a very important parameter of volcano monitoring, as they indicate an increase in volcanic activity and may be a precursor to an eruption,” the SGC said. Said.
Earlier, the authorities had recorded a strange light that baffled the inhabitants of this area.
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“Ash emissions are common at Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which has had minor eruptions for about 10 years. Sometimes they emit light due to the high temperature at which particulate material and gases emerge from the volcano,” SGC said. .
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