The volcano has entered a new eruptive phase, which began with the intensification of tremor on the 12th. Since then, the tremor has been extremely variable, with peaks throughout yesterday coinciding with intense phases of explosive strombolian activity and ash emission, producing strong and high eruption columns. Yesterday evening however, tremor signals ceased entirely, and this remained the case until this morning when a brief spike in tremor has been seen. In the evening, tremor again ceased completely, as did activity from any of the vents. The number of earthquakes increased yesterday to 71 events, peaking at M3.4. However, some of this increase is due to the fact that when there is no tremor, more lower magnitude events (
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