Located within the Rabaul Caldera on New Britain Island (the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in Papua New Guinea), Tavurvur began emitting ash in January 2013, after a few years of relative quiet.

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Robert Simmon.

This natural-color image was acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on the Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite.