COLIMA, MEXICO - Officials from Mexico’s Colima state have confirmed that their most active volcano has been erupting ash over the area for the last several days.

#VolcánDeColima 9:55 Hrs exhalación contenido moderado de ceniza 3000 mts de altura, sigue recomendaciones. pic.twitter.com/fAyWkci2LD

— Luis Felipe Puente (@LUISFELIPE_P) August 8, 2015

In just the past 24 hours, Colima Volcano has emitted five exhalations of ash reaching as high as over 1.5 miles in the air, according to Mexican news source Informador. This is on top of several other eruptions occurring every day since this past weekend. 

"The rains are coming into the volcanic system and are producing more gas than we have been seeing," researcher Mauricio Gonzalez from the University of Colima’s Volcano Observatory told Televisa News. “There’s a possibility, that there are more exhalations if there is more rain in the volcano.”

#VolcánDeColima con moderado contenido de ceniza a las 08:53 horas 2,000 mts. en dirección oeste-suroeste. pic.twitter.com/Q2OesFcNcX

— Luis Felipe Puente (@LUISFELIPE_P) August 11, 2015

Local areas including the city of La Becerrera in the municipality of Comala have been put on alert for future volcanic activity by area officials. Televisa reports that officials have also warned that the immense amount of ash accumulated on the slopes of the volcano could mix with recent rainfall to create what researchers refer to as a “lahar," or the potentially dangerous mixture of volcanic material and rushing water. 

Gonzalez continued, "With the amount of ash that is deposited in the canyons of the volcano there should be extreme precaution because they can produce mudflows or lahars in any of the canyons around the volcano." 

Luis Felipe Puente, National Coordinator of Civil Protection of the Ministry of the Interior, has issued an alert for all residents within a radius of 7.5 miles around the volcano.

As of yet, no injuries have been reported and damages to agriculture have not been reported.