With three active volcanoes in Costa Rica, and more than a hundred dormed, we are getting used to looking for the news to see the most recent information on them. These updates are on the three volcanoes that may affect visitors to Costa Rica Rincón de la Vieja Volcano Last Sunday, the Rincón de…
After several days of very strong activity, the Poás Volcano in Costa Rica has started a period of relative quiet, though, the volcano remains exhaling fumes and vapor, experts think that under the current conditions more eruptions can be expected in a short term. Strong evaporation is at the lake, with strong sub-aquatic fumaroles, the tremor that had…
Poas Volcano Eruption: Vulcanologists from OVSICORI and the National Seismological Network announced two powerful eruptions at Poás Volcano at 7:39 a.m. and 7:57 a.m. on Friday. The latest eruptions formed an ash and vapor crest of some 9,800 feet (3 kilometers) over the crater, evident from various places in the Central Valley. OVSICORI estimates that ash could…
Volcanologists from the University of Costa Rica’s National Seismological Network (RSN) and Ovsicori reported a new series of eruptions of Turrialba Volcano that started this week. The explosions have expelled ash and vapor more than 1 kilometer high above the crater and last an average of 10 minutes. RSN volcanologist Mauricio Mora said minutes before the…
The Poas Volcano, one of the most popular Costa Rica volcanoes regarding tourism is going through a renewed period of activity to the delight of visitors. This recent time-lapse video taken by a camera near the Poas Volcano crater was posted to the Facebook Timeline of the Observatory of Seismology and Volcanology of the National…
The Turrialba volcano returns to a period of quiet as it has been for a week without new expulsions of ash. The Volcanological and Seismological Observatory of Costa Rica (OVSICORI) of the National University, the Turrialba has prevailed low in its activity Friday, June 3. As they explain, “both degassing and seismicity remain at…
Throughout the past few days, if you Googled Costa Rica, most likely there would be, at least, a dozen articles and news about the Turrialba Volcano eruptions… Correct? Well! Living in the Central Valley, you could not miss the news. And the ash. However, there are some myths that we want to address, at…
Turrialba Volcano Region is one of the areas considered to be off the beaten track in Costa Rica. Even being one of the most beautiful regions of the country, there are always more known and popular areas, like, for example, the Arenal Volcano. The travel industry discovered the Arenal Volcano in the late 1980’s when…
This was a very active weekend in Costa Rica with Turrialba and Rincon volcanoes eruptions: The Turrialba Volcano has been with ash and steam eruptions every 30 minutes. And in Guanacaste, the Rincon de la Vieja Volcano made quite a big eruption on Sunday. NONE of our passengers were affected by these events. Turrialba Volcano…
Arenal Volcano Area… Does it sound familiar? Almost anyone that has been in contact with Costa Rica would have heard, at least, of the Arenal Volcano. It used to be tremendously active, up until October 2010 and famous for its -as well tremendously- photoshopped fire on the sides pictures. When tourism started in the country,…