Divya Krishnamoorthy

🚨A mud volcano just erupted in Colombia

On February 25, 2026, a mud volcano erupted near San Juan de Urabá, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Videos from the area show thick mud and gas blasting out of the earth, with flames visible at the vent. For people standing nearby, it looked like lava and fire under their feet.

But this is not a lava volcano. A mud volcano is driven by mud, water and gas under pressure in the subsurface. In this region, there are methane-rich sediments. When pressure builds and finds a weak point, the mud and gas can erupt upward. If that methane gas ignites when it hits the air, you get those dramatic flames above what looks like a boiling pool of mud.

Officials say there are no human injuries, but animals were killed, and authorities ordered evacuations around the vent to protect residents from further explosions of mud or gas. The Urabá region already has multiple mud volcanoes, so the phenomenon itself is not new, but this event was strong enough and close enough to communities that it triggered real fear and immediate response.

Mud volcanoes are reminders that the ground can fail and erupt in ways that most people never think about. They are not driven by magma, but they can still bury land, kill animals, damage property and ignite fires when gas escapes.

I will be following Colombian geological and local reports to see if this mud volcano stays active, if new vents open, and how authorities handle the risk.

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🚨ALASKA RING OF FIRE: VOLCANO ALERTS AND EARTHQUAKES TOGETHER

In the last 48 hours, the Alaska Volcano Observatory has kept Great Sitkin Volcano at WATCH / ORANGE, confirming that lava is still actively erupting inside the summit crater. This eruption has been going on since 2021, slowly filling the crater with new lava. Small local earthquakes continue to be recorded near the volcano, a sign that magma is still moving and the system is not done yet.

Shishaldin Volcano is currently at ADVISORY / YELLOW. After its recent eruptive episodes, AVO reports many small earthquakes and ongoing unrest beneath the cone. That means the volcano is above background and being watched closely in case it ramps back into eruption.

On top of this volcanic unrest, USGS just reported two tectonic earthquakes along Alaska’s broader arc: a magnitude 4.1 quake near Denali National Park on January 21 and a magnitude 3.9 quake near Ugashik on January 22 on the Alaska Peninsula. These are not huge quakes, but they are strong enough to be noticed and they sit on the same subduction system that feeds the Aleutian volcano chain.

I am tracking AVO bulletins, USGS earthquake catalogs, satellite imagery and webcams in real time. If alert levels change, if ash clouds form, or if new quakes hit the same zones, I will explain it here with real data.

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