afarTV volcano livestreams

afarTV is a private streaming company, not an observatory. It installs its own cameras at active volcanoes and broadcasts them continuously, many in 4K, on volcanoes in Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Italy, Indonesia, the Philippines and Iceland. Its stated aim is to get a viewer as close to being there as a screen allows, and beyond volcanoes it also streams the International Space Station, humpback whales off Maui and the coastal rainforest of British Columbia.

What a continuous stream adds

Most official cameras send a still image every few minutes. That is enough to tell whether a summit is clear, but it misses everything that is brief — and on these volcanoes, brief is the point. Fuego explodes every hour or so and the burst lasts seconds. Stromboli and Semeru are the same. A still camera catches the aftermath, if anything; a live stream catches the event, and at night it shows crater glow and incandescent blocks rolling down a flank, which a daylight still can never show.

afarTV also covers volcanoes where no public observatory camera exists at all, which is why several volcanoes here would otherwise have no live view at all.

Where it fits, and where it does not

A company stream gives the picture, not the data. Every alert level, bulletin and eruption record on these pages comes from the responsible national body instead — INSIVUMEH in Guatemala, CENAPRED in Mexico, PHIVOLCS in the Philippines, Badan Geologi in Indonesia, INGV in Italy. We show afarTV through YouTube's own embedded player, as afarTV permits, and credit the channel on every page that uses it.