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Going, going, gone.

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The past 15 months at Volcan de Colima in Mexico has seen a lot of change to the lava dome at the top of the volcano. In this post, I have gathered a chronological collection of images and videos to illustrate how much activity the volcano has experienced in that time. We begin in May 2014, with one of my own photos from a flight over the volcano. Here you can see a mostly intact dome with a very small collapse scar on the south flank. The south-east side of the summit lava dome at Colima in May 2014.  The volcano was also producing a small lava flow to the west, and experiencing several explosions a day. A small ash plume rises from the summit of the volcano in June 2014.  Now we jump forward to November 2014, when the volcano experienced pyroclastic flows accompanying a large explosion. A large explosion plume and a pyroclastic flow emanate from the volcano in November 2014. View from the south. Source: @MikeVolc In December, the number of daily explosions had