Aotearoa Summary. 24 June 2022 - 1 July 2022
The forecasters only expected very mild equatorial Pacific quakes so a local forecast wasn't offered which turned out to be a mistake. Local volcanologists advised volcanic tremor at Ruapehu has ended, the crater lake is back to a cool 22C and gas measurements are falling. They have kept Ruapehu at Alert Level 2...probably as a precaution with skifields opening, the memory of the White Island tragedy still fresh and their forecasting cluelessness. An eruption at Ruapehu seems unlikely in the next few days or weeks because sunspot and coronal hole activity has now weakened and unlikely to strengthen until September and the arrival of the spring aurora season. Regardless, Ruapehu has experienced the strongest tremor since the 2007 eruption series. Volcanic Plateau shallow quake swarms accompanying the volcanic tremor are also easing back but still with minor swarms at Lake Taupo and West of Ruapehu. A 3 week long quake swarm at Taranaki is a new observation and coinciding with the Volcanic Plateau swarms. The last eruption at Taranaki was apparently a very small eruption in 1854.... 20km North of Springs Junction 4.4 5.13am Rolleston 4.0 5.40am 27 June. Arapawa Island 4.3 10.48am 29 June. Northwest Arm Te Anau 4.3 3.10am Aotearoa Earthquake and Volcano Forecast Service © 2013 - 2024 |
