The authorities have withdrawn the alert status for the Tangkuban Parahu volcano in West Java, allowing the nature tourism area to be reopened to visitors after almost a month of closure.

The normal status for the volcano, located 20 km north of Bandung, was declared at 4.30 pm on Monday, according to Surono, head of the Indonesian Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation, Geological Agency of Indonesia.

He said the alert status was declared following a rise in activity in the Ratu crater, one of the nine craters of the volcano.

Although people are now allowed to visit Tangkuban Parahu, they are advised to refrain from descending into the Ratu and Upas craters or stay anywhere near any of the other craters.

Tangkuban Parahu is an active volcano and the Ratu and Upas craters at its peak, measuring 1,000 meters and 400 meters deep respectively, are the main attraction for visitors.

Volcano erupting in Russia's Far East

Volcano creates a lake of burning lava

A volcano is continues to erupt in Russia's Far East, sending plumes of gas and ash into the sky. Rivers of molten lava flowing in the area of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano, in Kamchatka peninsula.

The Plosky Tolbachik volcano is located hundreds of miles from the nearest residential areas.

Gennady Karpov, a volcano expert at Russia's Academy of Sciences in the Far East, said, "There were no lava lakes at Kamchatka volcanoes before now. We have never seen this before."

Hot lava spewing from the volcano have been measured as high as 650 feet.

The volcanoes last eruption occurred in November of 2012 after a dormant period of 40 years.

The current eruptions are not likely to end anytime soon.  

Friday, Russian scientists reported there are no signs the Plosky Tolbachik volcano will stop erupting soon.

They said the volcano regularly emits jets of burning hot lava up to 200 meters (656 feet) high.

A group of scientists flew to the foot of the volcano on Thursday to monitor its activity 24-hours a day.

Despite being situated on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, the volcano has attracted tourists to the region.

However, local officials have warned tourists and locals against visiting the area due to the hot lava and poisonous gases that come to the surface during the eruption.

After lying dormant for almost 40 years Plosky Tolbachik suddenly erupted in November. This year is the largest eruption so far.  An estimated 1,200 tons of lava is pouring out every second.

Plosky Tolbachik last erupted in 1976.

The ongoing eruption of Russia's Plosky Tolbachik volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula has sent gas and ashes 2-1/2 miles into the sky.

The ongoing eruption of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia has sent gas and ashes almost 2-1/2 miles into the sky, officials say.

A volcano is on red alert near the Chile-Argentina border, with the volcano billowing ash and smoke as geologists keep watch.

The volcano was put on red alert on Sunday after it became increasingly active. The Copahue volcano, which sits in the Andes cordillera, first started emitting spewing ash and gas on Saturday.

Officials first raised a yellow alert, which was then upgraded to orange. Chile’s emergency office quickly put the volcano on red alert after seismic activity registered on Saturday night and a cloud of ash rose from the volcano a mile into the air.

“Authorities have overflown the volcano area and the alert is still red,” Gilda Grandon of Chile’s emergency office unit told The Associated Press. “We have noted some drop in the ash plume but the alert level is maintained because a full eruption is not ruled out.”

No mandatory evacuations have yet been ordered near the volcano.

Chile is issuing a red alert for a volcano on the border with Argentina that has become increasingly active.

The Copahue volcano straddling Argentina's Neuquen province started spewing ash and gas on Saturday. Officials issued a yellow and orange alert.

Chile's emergency office ONEMI raised the alert Sunday in Chile's Biobio region after it registered seismic activity Saturday night and a cloud of ash almost a mile (1.5km) high.

The Puyehue volcano in southern Chile erupted last year, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights and the evacuation of thousands of people.

Ecuador issued an orange alert — the second-highest warning level — for towns near the Tungurahua volcano on Sunday, as its level of activity rose.

The area of the warning covers the adjacent provinces of Tungurahua and Chimborazo, according to the national civil defense agency.

Greater activity has been building along with a slight increase in gas emissions from the 5,029-meter (16,500-foot) volcano, located about 135 kilometers (84 miles) south of the capital Quito, the Geophysical Institute said.

Eruptions at Tungurahua, which means "Throat of Fire" in the indigenous Quechua language, peaked in 2006, killing six people in a Chimborazo village.

Several communities near Tungurahua, including the tourist town of Banos with 15,000 people, also were forced to evacuate during the volcano's violent eruption in 1999. Residents could only return to their homes a year later.

Russian volcano, Plosky Tolbachik, had been dormant for close to 40 years, but has recently erupted, spewing hot lava down its banks.

Molten rock from Plosky Tolbachik destroyed a nearby recreational base, and set fire to a nearby forest.  No casualties have been reported from the eruption.

The natural spectacle, which is located in Russia's eastern Kamchatka region, erupted in an unusual way, with the lava and ash not flowing out of its main crater, but from the volcano's sides.

Some tourists have approached the flowing lava to have their pictures taken on a background of molten rock and burning trees. Other tourist groups have organised outings with off-road vehicles delivering tourists to the base of fresh ash and rock deposits from the eruption.

Igor Poluektov, who had come to see the volcano said: "We had certainly not expected to see something like this, we saw from a distance how it was flowing, but this view now is no less impressive, we are simply shocked."

A volcano in Russia’s Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for the first time in 36 years.

Polsky Tolbachik began spewing a column of ash seven kilometers into the atmosphere.

A volcanic ash cloud formed and is drifting to the northwest as lava flows down the volcano’s southern slope.

The eruption poses no threat to the local population.

The alert level for a remote volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands has been raised after a small ash cloud was detected.

Geophysicist Rick Wessels at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Monday no further emissions have been released from Cleveland Volcano since the ash was detected Saturday. The cloud prompted the alert level to be raised to orange, which means a volcano is under way with minor ash emissions.

According to the volcano observatory, infrasound data suggests a small explosion occurred at 11:25 a.m. Saturday.

Cleveland Volcano is a 5,675-foot peak on an uninhabited island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage.

The volcano observatory says additional eruptions are still possible with little warning, and ash clouds 20,000 feet above sea level are possible.