Volcano Activity

Recent volcanic activity reports from around the world, aggregated by VolcanoDiscovery from all nine Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers (VAACs) and national observatories. For individual volcano records and eruption history, see Volcanoes; for aviation ash advisories, see Volcano Alerts.

Recent Reports

Live activity reports, ingested via the platform feeds addon and rendered from the record store at view time (no page churn). Each headline links back to the full report on volcanodiscovery.com — source: VolcanoDiscovery.

title	pubDate
Volcanoes Today, 11 Sep 2026: Etna volcano, Santiaguito, Fuego, Semeru, Ibu, Dukono, Reventador, Sakurajima	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:00:05 +0000
Volcanic activity worldwide 10 Sep 2026: Etna volcano, Santiaguito, Fuego, Krakatau, Semeru, Ibu, Du...	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:00:06 +0000
Semeru Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 15,000 ft (4,600 m) as of Sep 10, 23:59 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:15:10 +0000
Semeru Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 15,000 ft (4,600 m) as of Sep 10, 17:40 UTC	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:16 +0000
Santiaguito Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 14,000 ft (4,300 m) as of Sep 11, 06:50 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:45:54 +0000
Santiaguito Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 14,000 ft (4,300 m) as of Sep 10, 19:00 UTC	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:45:04 +0000
Sakurajima volcano (Kyushu, Japan): powerful vulcanian eruption	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:24:12 +0000
Reventador Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 15,000 ft (4,600 m) as of Sep 11, 06:30 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:45:30 +0000
Reventador Volcanic Ash Advisory	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:15:20 +0000
Puracé Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 17,000 ft (5,200 m) as of Sep 11, 03:40 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:30:13 +0000
Puracé Volcanic Ash Advisory	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:45:11 +0000
Lewotolo Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 7,000 ft (2,100 m) as of Sep 11, 06:25 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:30:16 +0000
Ibu Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 7,000 ft (2,100 m) as of Sep 11, 09:43 UTC	Fri, 11 Sep 2026 09:45:13 +0000
Ibu Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 7,000 ft (2,100 m) as of Sep 10, 22:47 UTC	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:00:23 +0000
Ibu Volcanic Ash Advisory: ash plume to 7,000 ft (2,100 m) as of Sep 10, 16:00 UTC	Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:30:40 +0000

If nothing renders above, no recent reports are available — or the volcanodiscovery-activity feed source is not yet configured (see Configuration).

Data Sources

Source	Provider	Coverage
Volcano activity news	VolcanoDiscovery	Global, aggregated from all 9 VAACs and national observatories

Configuration

The live feed is served by the ngdpbase feeds addon (#685). Enable it and declare the source in the instance app-custom-config.json, then restart. The production config uses flat dot-notation keys (not nested JSON):

{
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.enabled": true,
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.adapter": "xml",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.url": "https://www.volcanodiscovery.com/volcanonews.rss",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.itemsPath": "rss.channel.item",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.type": "VolcanoActivityReport",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.schemaType": "Article",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.intervalMinutes": 30,
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.recordIdField": "link",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.map.title": "title",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.map.link": "link",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.map.pubDate": "pubDate",
  "ngdpbase.addons.feeds.sources.volcanodiscovery-activity.map.summary": "description"
}

type is the domain label (VolcanoActivityReport); schemaType stays Article per the same constraint noted on Tsunamis. recordIdField is link, not guid — VolcanoDiscovery's <guid isPermaLink="true"> element carries an attribute, so the XML parser returns it as {@isPermaLink, #text} rather than a plain string, and the adapter silently drops any record whose id doesn't resolve to a string/number. <link> has no attributes and is guaranteed unique per article, so it's used as the id instead.

Licensing

Used with permission from VolcanoDiscovery (Dr. Tom Pfeiffer, 2026-07-23), conditional on every displayed item linking directly back to its source page on volcanodiscovery.com and the source being clearly marked — see the link='title=:link' binding above and Attribution. See issue #7 for the full licensing correspondence.

Status: page and feed wiring live in production — volcanodiscovery-activity is registered in app-custom-config.json and ingesting (20 items on first fetch).