A live thermal interpretation of Mount Serein's lava lake.

Observatory uplink / Night shift 118

THE LAKEIS BREATHING.

A live field record from the north rim of Mount Serein. The crust is rafting east. The gas column is building. Nothing here is still.

02:14

Lake breathing again.
Eight-metre heave / 43 sec.

HEAVE43sbreath cycle
RAFT VECTOR082°east / 0.7 m·min⁻¹
RADIANCE91%sensor headroom
VENT CAM / THERMAL INTERPRETATION 1,087°C SURFACE
Scroll to instruments
01 / THE RECORD NEVER STOPS

THREE NEEDLES.
ONE NERVOUS MOUNTAIN.

Every line below is being drawn now. Tap, click, or press anywhere: the station will interpret your contact as a local seismic event and write it into the record.

SRN—ZVERTICAL100 Hz
GAIN 24 dB0.18 µm/s
SRN—NNORTH / SOUTH50 Hz
GAIN 18 dB0.11 µm/s
SRN—EEAST / WEST50 Hz
GAIN 18 dB0.14 µm/s
BACKGROUND TREMORM— 0.3EVENTS THIS SHIFT 07
02 / CONDITION BOARD
VOLCANIC ALERT LEVEL

Minor eruptive activity confined to the summit caldera. Ballistic exclusion zone: 2.5 km.

GAS PLUME / 10 MIN MEAN

WHAT THE
AIR IS SAYING

SO2 flux1,840t/day↑ 12%
CO2 / SO23.71ratio↑ 0.24
H2S18.6ppmstable

DOAS beam crossed the plume 86 times. Wind correction confidence 92%.

03 / BELOW THE FLOOR

A COLUMN OF
UNFINISHED PRESSURE.

The conduit model fuses infrasound, tilt and gas chemistry. Tonight it places the foam layer 610 metres below the lake—shallow enough for every collapse to answer at the surface.

LAVA LAKE / 1,087°CFOAM LAYER / −610 MMAGMA HEAD / RISING 3 CM·D⁻¹
TILT / NORTH RIM+6.4µrad since 00:00
04 / NIGHT-SHIFT LOG

NOTES FROM
THE RIM.

Hand observations from Watch Officers Mara Venn and Ivo Sato. All times local, station clock GPS locked.

ON CONSOLEMV / IShandover 06:30
  1. Crust overturn at west raft

    Incandescent seam opened approximately 70 metres, then zipped north. No ballistic ejecta.

    MV
  2. Plume briefly darkened

    Ash entrainment low; FLIR shows inner wall collapse below camera sector C.

    IS
  3. Lake breathing again

    Eight-metre heave on a 43-second cycle. Drum Z carries persistent 1.8 Hz tremor.

    MV
  4. Spatter above east hornito

    Intermittent bursts to 18 metres. Thermal camera auto-exposure reduced two stops.

    IS

THE MOUNTAIN DOES NOT SLEEP.

WE KEEP
THE NEEDLE DOWN.

NEXT PUBLIC BULLETIN06:00unless conditions change