This Week in Volcano News; Status of the Mexico City Volcano, Unrest at Bulusan

This week saw the continued volcanic eruption of the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico City. Located 70 kilometers to the southeast of Mexico City, it in the last week produced an increasing duration of volcanic tremors. Meanwhile, the United States was the site of a new volcanic eruption as the Ahyi Seamount erupted anew in the Northern Mariana Islands. And, in the Philippines, the Bulusan volcano’s subsidence recently turned into minor uplift, with two shallow earthquake swarms occurring in the month of May. This video will discuss these stories & list the 42 volcanoes which are actively erupting across the planet. As a clarification, the “increasing activity“ at Popocatepetl does not indicate an increased eruptive output in the last week compared to the prior week or an increased number of explosions, but rather only an increased duration of volcanic tremor events this week when compared to the prior week. This in my opinion implies the movement of magma and volcanic gasses. This video’s thumbnail image displays a phreatic eruption at Kilauea in 2018, which is not actively erupting as of May 26th, 2023. This image does not represent the current activity at the Popocatepetl volcano, which is largely vulcanian rather than phreatic. Thumbnail Photo Credit: U.S. Geological Survey, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Public Domain, This image was edited and then overlaid with text in addition to GeologyHub made graphics (the GeologyHub logo and the image border). If you would like to support this channel, consider using one of the following links: (Patreon: ) (YouTube membership: ) (Gemstone & Mineral Etsy store: ) (GeologyHub Merch Etsy store: ) Google Earth imagery used in this video: ©Google & Data Providers This video is protected under “fair use“. If you see an image and/or video which is your own in this video, and/or think my discussion of a scientific paper (and/or discussion/mentioning of the data/information within a scientific paper) does not fall under the fair use doctrine, and wish for it to be censored or removed, contact me by email at tccatron@ and I will make the necessary changes. Various licenses used in sections of this video (not the entire video, this video as a whole does not completely fall under one of these licenses) and/or in this video’s thumbnail image: Public Domain: CC BY 3.0 NZ: CC BY 4.0: Sources/Citations: [1] Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-hazards Department [2] INGV (Italy) [3] Servicio Geologico Minero Argentino (Argentina) [4] ONEMI (Chile) [5] Geonet (New Zealand), Information on the site is largely (but not all content on the site falls under the CC BY 3.0 NZ license) licensed under a CC BY 3.0 NZ license [6] Tonga Geological Services [7] PVMBG (Indonesia) [8] / Iceland Met Office [9] Phivolcs (Philippines) [10] U.S. Geological Survey [11] Hawaiian Volcano Observatory [12] Alaska Volcano Observatory [13] Vanuatu Meteorology & Geo-Hazards Department [14] INSTITUTO GEOFÍSICO ESCUELA POLITÉCNICA NACIONAL (Ecuador) [15] OVSICORI-UNA (Costa Rica) [16] Sernageomin (Chile) [17] Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Russia) [18] Japanese Meteorological Agency [19] Servicio Geologico Colombiano [20] Yellowstone Volcano Observatory [21] Observatoire Volcanologique Piton de la Fournaise [22] NOAA 0:00 42 Erupting Volcanoes 1:06 Popocatepetl Update 2:52 Ahyi Seamount 3:33 Bulusan Unrest 4:21 Full List of Erupting Volcanoes 4:33 Conclusion