Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Great Sitkin
in United States

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Great Sitkin Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID VO 1000025
Name: Great Sitkin
Lat/Lon: 52.076 , -176.13
Event Date: 26 May 2021 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: No people affected
Exposed Population 100km: About 200 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 2
Population Exposure Index PEI: 1
Inserted at: 26 May 2021 06:47 UTC

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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

The Smithsonian/USGS Weekly Volcanic Activity Report provides information about global volcanism on a weekly basis. Latest Great Sitkin report has been published on 19 May 2021 09:25.
AVO reported that elevated surface temperatures at Great Sitkin had been identified in satellite images since January and had been increasing in frequency during the previous two months. A minor increase in seismicity began to be recorded on 9 May and volcanic gas emissions increased on 10 May. AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to Yellow and the Volcano Alert Level to Advisory on 12 May. Source: US Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO)
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 97 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Eruption du volcan Nyiragongo : l’ONU valide l’octroi de 1,2 millions ... Sat, 29 May 2021 19:51:00 +0200.

Le Secrétaire général adjoint des Nations Unies chargé des affaires humanitaires et Coordonnateur des secours d’urgence, Mark Lowcock a validé, samedi 29 mai, l’octroi d’une contribution financière du Fonds central de réponse d’urgence (CER
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61 earthquakes hit Congo after volcanic eruption: reportSat, 29 May 2021 19:31:00 +0200.

The Democratic Republic of Congo was hit with 61 earthquakes within a 24-hour period on Saturday, a week after the Mount Nyiragongo volcano erupted for the first time in nearly 20 years. In a report from the Goma Volcano Observatory (GVO) t
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RDC : USAID débloque une enveloppe supplémentaire de 400 000 USD en fa ... Sat, 29 May 2021 18:28:00 +0200.

L’Agence pour le développement international (USAID) a déboursé 400 000 dollars américains supplémentaires en faveur des victimes de l’éruption volcanique du Nyiragongo qui s’est produite le samedi 22 mai 2021. D’après les indications de l’
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Thousands evacuate over possible second DRC volcano eruptionSat, 29 May 2021 17:30:00 +0200.

May 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of residents have evacuated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo's eastern city of Goma under threat from a another eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano, the United Nations said. U.N. Office for the Coordinati
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),