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Eruption Image Gallery
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(NB - this gallery is not updated in real time)

VAAC eruption imagery map Barren Island, Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean Talang, Sumatra Heard and McDonald islands, southern Indian Ocean Krakatau, Sunda Strait, Indonesia Papandayan, western Java Galunggung, western Java Merapi, central Java Kelut, central Java Semeru, eastern Java Raung, eastern Java Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia Iliboleng, Flores, Indonesia Banda Api, Banda Sea, Indonesia Egon, Flores, Indonesia Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines Mayon, Luzon, Philippines Anatahan, Mariana Islands, Pacific Ocean Soputan, Sulawesi, Indonesia Ruang, Sangihe Islands, Indonesia Dukono, Halmahera Gamalama, Halmahera, Indonesia Makain, Halmahera, Indonesia Manam, Papua New Guinea Langila, New Britain, Papua New Guinea Pago, New Britain, Papua New Guinea Ulawun, New Britain, Papua New Guinea Rabaul, New Britain, Papua New Guinea Ambrym, Vanuatu Lopevi, Vanuatu Kanlaon, Philippines
Volcano Date Region Image type(s) Page Size
Ambrym Not known Vanuatu NASA Space Shuttle 29 K
Anatahan May 2003 Mariana Islands GMS-5 IR java animation 256 K
Banda Api May 1988 Indonesia GMS visible 37 K
Barren Island March 1995 Indian Ocean NASA Space Shuttle 27 K
Dukono 1994, 2003 Indonesia NOAA 103 K
Egon September 2004 Indonesia Aqua/MODIS 40 K
Galunggung June/July 1982 Indonesia GMS IR animations 186 K
Gamalama July 2003 Indonesia GMS animation, MODIS 189 K
Heard Island November 1985 Southern Ocean NASA Space Shuttle, others 136 K
Iliboleng September 1983 Indonesia NASA Space Shuttle 35 K
Kanlaon March 2005 Philippines Terra/MODIS 96 K
Kelut February 1990 Indonesia GMS IR animation 25 K
Krakatau June 1999 Indonesia CNES SPOT 57 K
Langila February 1997 Papua New Guinea GMS IR animation, GMS-5 visible 459 K
Lopevi June 2001 Vanuatu GMS IR/vis animation 380K
Makian July 1988 Indonesia GMS 65 K
Manam & Rabaul June 1997 Papua New Guinea GMS visible 40 K
Manam October 1998 Papua New Guinea GMS visible animation, TOMS 250 K
Manam July 1999 Papua New Guinea NASA Space Shuttle 92 K
Manam May 2002 Papua New Guinea GMS vis animation 92 K
Manam Oct-Dec 2004 Papua New Guinea MODIS, NOAA/AVHRR, AIRS, OMI. 500K
Manam January 2005 Papua New Guinea MODIS, GOES, AIRS, OMI 600K
Manam February 2006 Papua New Guinea MTSAT, AIRS 129 K
Mayon February 2000 Philippines GMS animation 115 K
Merapi November 1993 Indonesia GMS Java animation 200 K
Pago August/Sept 2002 Papua New Guinea AVHRR/MODIS 68 K
Papandayan November 2002 Indonesia GMS visible 71 K
Pinatubo June 1991 Philippines GMS animations, TOMS 523 K
Rabaul September 1994 Papua New Guinea GMS animations, NASA Space Shuttle 786 K
Rabaul September 1999 Papua New Guinea GMS IR animation 143 K
Rinjani July 1994 Indonesia GMS animations, NOAA 201 K
Rinjani August 1994 Indonesia NOAA-11/12 172 K
Rinjani September 1994 Indonesia GMS animations, NOAA 234 K
Raung June, August 2002 Indonesia NOAA/AVHRR 113 K
Ruang September 2002 Indonesia Aqua/MODIS, GMS Java Animation, AVHRR 600 K
Semeru Various Indonesia Photographs, NOAA-15, Space shuttle 140 K
Soputan 2005,2004, 2003 Indonesia GOES 9 / Terra/MODIS 272 K
Talang April 2005 Indonesia GOES 9 47 K
Ulawun September 2000 Papua New Guinea NOAA-14, GMS animation, TOMS 340 K
Ulawun April 2001 Papua New Guinea GMS animation, TOMS 208 K

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