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More information:

• Wellington VAAC advisories page
• Global Volcanism Program page
• Volcano Discovery
  page (link does not mean endorsement of their business, which I know nothing about)
• Wikipedia pages on
  Ambae Island and its volcano

June 4, 2026, 11:19 a.m., Pacific: Ambae is erupting, but at a low level at present, per Wellington VAAC:

VA ADVISORY
DTG: 20260604/1618Z
VAAC: WELLINGTON
VOLCANO: AMBAE 257030
PSN: S1523 E16750
AREA: VANUATU
SOURCE ELEV: 1496M AMSL
ADVISORY NR: 2026/198
INFO SOURCE: SATELLITE IMAGE
ERUPTION DETAILS: ERUPTION AT 20260604/0810Z CONTINUOUS
LOW-LEVEL ERUPTION
OBS VA DTG: 04/1618Z
OBS VA CLD: SFC/FL100 S1523 E16747 – S1523 E16753 – S1601
E16812 – S1605 E16753 MOV S 10KT
FCST VA CLD +6 HR: 04/2218Z SFC/FL100 S1521 E16756 – S1607
E16758 – S1557 E16727 – S1517 E16746
FCST VA CLD +12 HR: 05/0418Z SFC/FL100 S1523 E16756 – S1610
E16802 – S1610 E16740 – S1535 E16739 – S1518 E16746
FCST VA CLD +18 HR: 05/1018Z SFC/FL100 S1523 E16756 – S1609
E16755 – S1604 E16738 – S1531 E16739 – S1518 E16746
RMK: ONGOING LOW-LEVEL ERUPTION. ASH VISIBLE ON SAT IMAGERY.
HEIGHTS AND MOVEMENT BASED ON MODELS
NXT ADVISORY: NO LATER THAN 20260604/2218Z=

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Original post:

This is for updates to a blog post I have not yet done, actually, and it’s up because of this:

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🚨 Update on Ambae Volcano (Vanuatu) 🌋
Escalating eruptive phase

Satellites just detected a massive heat spike at Ambae's crater lake. The heat reading jumped to a staggering 2,593 megawatts—an incredible amount of energy!

Why is this dangerous?

When lava mixes with large… pic.twitter.com/xrZIivLd18

— Dr John Seach (@johnseach) June 2, 2026

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More information:

• Wellington VAAC advisories page
• Global Volcanism Program page
• Volcano Discovery
  page (link does not mean endorsement of their business, which I know nothing about)
• Wikipedia pages on
  Ambae Island and its volcano

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Featured image: The volcano in 1995, by ORSTOM via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

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