On 18 August a Red Alert was imposed by the La Araucanía regional government on a number of localities around Llaima because of increased seismicity. ONEMI’s bulletin on this development notes that ‘The seismic activity recorded in recent days is comparable to that recorded in the days before the start of the eruption on 1 January and preceding the reactivation of February 2008′. SERNAGEOMIN’s alert for Llaima remains at Volcanic Alert Yellow.

The team at the Llaima visual observation project (POVI) have sent over the following two images, showing Llaima in eruption amid the clouds of 18 August. Both views are taken from the south and show the eruption plumes produced by the volcano’s sporadic ash emissions being blown eastwards (from left to right). The upper picture was taken at 16:20 local time and the lower at 17:17 local time.

Our thanks to the team at POVI for sharing these images with The Volcanism Blog. The POVI Llaima website has further pictures of this eruption, and a spectacular time-lapse video of the eruptive activity on 18 August.

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Information
Global Volcanism Program: Llaima – summary information for Llaima (1507-11=)
Volcán Llaima – information from the Observatorio Volcanológico de los Andes del Sur (Spanish)
Oficina Nacional de Emergencia – Chilean government emergencies office (Spanish)
SERNAGEOMIN – Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería, Chile (Spanish)
Proyecto Observación Visual Volcán Llaima - Llaima Visual Observation Project