Costa Rica’s Turrialba Volcano has erupted over three kilometres above the top of the summit.
The eruption occurred around 1:30 a.m. local time Thursday, but a column of vapour was still visible above the crater just before 9 a.m., local paper Tico Times reported.
There’s been no reports of injuries but wind patterns at the time meant ashfall and a strong smell of sulfur was present in many communities southeast of the volcano.
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“It was a single explosion but a really strong one. This means that there was high pressure inside the volcano,” Javier Pacheco, a volcanologist with the Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica, told the Tico Times.
The Turrialba Volcano is around 50 kilometres east of the capital, San Jose. The spectacular sight is likely not surprising to some researchers who have been seeing activity from the volcano since May 3.