The Ring of Fire is still where most of the action is on the big, erupting planet but the eastern portion takes over the list (the list was only "gone" for a day or so)this week. Kamchatka rules again with 5 volcanoes belching and spewing in various degrees with two neighbors erupting just south of there in the Kuril Islands. A little further south and Japan shows 3 on the list - the new island that formed off the SE coast is now bigger than the original island. Two Indonesian eruption are on the list with evacuations happening around Sinabung. At the bottom of the ring, New Zealand's White Island has stirred back up.
Off the ring and on THE hot spot, Hawaii; Kilauea is spewing and burning nearby forests, not at all unusual for the worlds most active volcano. Etna's current eruption continues with lava and ash ejections on Sicily. The western side of the ring only shows two eruptions this week: Santa Maria is oozing lava and raining ash on nearby villages in Guatemala and Reventador is back on the list after ash emissions in Ecuador.
Hope you're in a safe spot, far enough away from the action on the tectonic-ing planet, today on Earth.
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