Overall Green alert Volcanic eruption for Purace
in Colombia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID VO 1000107
Name: Purace (351060)
Lat/Lon: 2.32 , -76.4
Event Date: 21 Jan 2025 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: About 330000 people within 30km
Exposed Population 100km: About 1820000 people within 100km
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 3
Population Exposure Index PEI: 4
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2025 06:57 UTC

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Colombia - Volcanic activity (ECHO 26 Jan 2025)Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:41

  • On 20 January, the Puracé volcano located in the Cauca Department, south-western Colombia increased its activity. The National Geological Service of Colombia registered intense seismic activity starting on 20 January at 4.06 UTC followed by ash emission in the atmosphere.
  • According to the same source, the dispersion of the ash moved westwards and the ashfall affected the towns of Puracé and Coconuco.
  • The alert level of the volcano stands at Yellow, which means that the volcano is active with changes in the base-level behaviour of monitored parameters and other manifestations.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (32), (2), INGV (2), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), JSR (1),