The activity began at 11 a.m. this morning at the Poás Volcano, the cameras located in different points of the National Park captured two “mouths” or active emanation points.

Large columns of gases, vapor and ash were emanating from the volcano for several hours and at 1:50 p.m. a larger eruption was registered which reached 400 meters above the crater (3108 meters above sea level or 10,194.24 feet above sea level). The ash was carried by the wind to the South West.

The Costa Rica Seismology Network confirmed the column of ash was still going at around 6 p.m. this afternoon.

“All afternoon it was emanating ash with variable intensity. The normal gray ash colors turned yellowish at times due to the presence of sulfur and in the afternoon, it had a red tone that possibly indicates the presence of very fine iron 3+ particles, but we still have to analyze it”, explained vulcanologist Guillermo Alvarado.

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This past Monday some neighbors of the Arenal Volcano, in San Carlos, area were alarmed when they saw a column of gas emanating from it; however, experts from the National University’s Volcanology and Seismology Research Institute (OVSICORI) explained that since 2010 the Arenal Volcano has not presented any eruptions but the hot material that remains inside the volcano can take even a hundred or more years to cool off; therefore when this material is in contact with rainfall it produces sometimes columns of vapor, which is what the neighbors spotted.