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It is impressive, and that it’s continued this long after the lower slope breached indicates that the source is full deep rather than draining build up in the cone.
I think the biggest concern here is whether the mechanism pushing it out is high pressure at depth from gasses in the body, or displacement by “sagging” in the overlying material. If it’s the latter, then at some point the “sag” will pinch off the passages and cease the eruption for a period of time.
If the former, at what point does enough material exit to put the structure at risk of swift collapse and Krakatoa like event? Extruded material is at about .4 cubic kilometers plus gas, and that stuff was all holding stuff up before it worked it’s way to the surface.
The cone also has been emitting a seriously higher amount of what appeared to be steam clouds over the last week or so...
Also, side note, whenever you see the flanks start giving off a bunch of vapor, that’s probably magma “silling” out into the cinder body and revolatizing lighter compounds in the cone material like sulfur and associated compounds.
If we had a means of handling this stuff cost effectively could you imagine the paving jobs you could do with it???
Dutchsinse has recently expanded the scope of his work to more explicitly include volcanic activity. His "standing wave" theory predicts where near-future earthquakes are likely to happen. He surmises that the same forces that produce earthquakes will cause increased volcanic activity at predictable points.