“Lava continues to erupt slowly at Great Sitkin Volcano. Ongoing activity is adding to a thick lava flow that fills most of the summit crater with minor advancement of the northern part of the eastern lobe. Small earthquakes associated with the ongoing lava eruption continue. Nothing unusual was observed in cloudy satellite and web camera imagery. A single explosive event occurred in May 2021 and was followed by the ongoing eruption of lava that began in July 2021. No explosive events have occurred since May 2021. Local seismic and infrasound sensors and web cameras are used to monitor Great Sitkin along with regional infrasound and lightning networks and satellite data,” says a US Geological Survey update on the Great Sitkin Volcano on the Aleutian Island of the same name.
Seems very low-T and unmotivated, like it doesn’t have the confidence to fully erupt and make the news but also doesn’t know how to stop and be comfortable with quietude and dormancy. Of course anthropomorphizing a volcano is silly and hubristic, but think of that as a way to actually tempt fate and encourage to explode cataclysmically and give us something to cover outside of politics.