Alaska Volcano Mount Redoubt

Alaska Volcano Mount Redoubt

Mt. Redoubt is a large, active, stratovolcano in Alaska's Aleutian range. It's the highest peak in the range and is currently rated at alert level orange after the Alaska Volcano Observatory announced that the volcano could erupt within... [more]

Mt. Redoubt is a large, active, stratovolcano in Alaska's Aleutian range. It's the highest peak in the range and is currently rated at alert level orange after the Alaska Volcano Observatory announced that the volcano could erupt within hours or days in January of 2009. If the volcano erupts, it will most likely be a large scale, devastating eruption.

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Imagine an eruption FIVE TIMES IN ONLY TWO HOURS! Last night, at 10:30 PM, Mt. Redoubt in Alaska erupted. Actually, it erupted five times within two hours. Its plume was 50,000 ft. high. Although 103 miles southwest of Anchorage, the ash could settle in Anchorage if winds shift from north to northwest. With that ash, the chemical words that come up most often are: chlorofluorocarbon pollution, radiation balance, acid rain, carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid. And the political name that could come up is: Sarah Palin. Isn't it rather scary thinking of Sarah Palin in charge after a disaster? From Anchorage Daily News: Ash ... Read Full Story
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Northwest: --There have been a number of conversations over the last year or so about whether or not the Mount Saint Helens National Volcanic Monument should be changed int o a National Park. To read some of the arguments for and against this concept, please click here . Be sure to read all of the comments below the main article as well. -- Neighbors of Seattle's Discovery Park were startled Sunday to see a black bear wandering the area. Seattle police received the first report of the bear after midnight Sunday, when a resident reported a bear wandering around their yard in the 5600 ... Read Full Story
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Northwest: Pronghorn Antelope Photo from Wikepedia --Pronghorn antelope one day could again roam swaths of Eastern Washington, although not as soon as longtime supporters of reintroduction have hoped. Washington's Department of Fish and Wildlife recently began the process to develop an environmental impact statement on the feasability of reintroducing the native species. Pronghorns have been extirpated from the state from the 1930s to the 1960s, but a population never was sustained. To read more, click here . -- Arrest warrants have been issued for a Vancouver man and his son accused of attacking a cross-country skier, taking his car and leaving him for dead. ... Read Full Story
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An oil pipeline company plans to resume shipments from its terminal near the base of an Alaskan volcano that has sent hot boulders, huge ice chunks and mud flowing toward the terminal on several occasions since becoming active again in March. Delaware-based Cook Inlet Pipeline Co. hopes to load the first tanker and resume operations by mid-August. The plan, which needs regulatory approval, is to bypass Drift River Terminal's mostly empty tanks and deliver oil directly to tankers through an underground pipeline. But company officials said the resumption depends on the status of Mount Redoubt, which has quieted recently. The terminal, which is owned ... Read Full Story
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Here is Part 2 of the Q with Dr. Boris Behncke. You can also check out Part 1. Undated image of Stromboli in eruption. (Shirakawa Akira) 1. Would a large scale eruption (VEI 5 or greater) of Mt. Etna like the ones occurred in 122 BC and 1500 BC (disputed) be possible again in the foreseeable future? Or is the volcano slowly "dying" although the last eruption ended in July 2009 has been one of the longest ever recorded? 2. Not really related...  
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Volcano Live website is created by Australian scientist and volcano adventurer John Seach. It is the world's first volcano news and travel website. The site contains over 3200 pages of information, and receives more than 25 million hits per year.  
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Longtime Big Island writing teacher Tom Peek has taken his students and friends by surprise after releasing a CD of original piano compositions he produced with his brother, C.J. Peek. Their "Piano Stories" album includes 20 piano solos and ensemble pieces that pay tribute to places, people and events of their lives with tunes one Big Islander called "lyrical jazz."  
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Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of Alaska. The mountain is also the highest within the range. It is located in the Chigmit Mountains (a subrange of the Aleutians), west of Cook Inlet, about 180 km (110 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska. The Alaska Volcano Observatory currently rates Redoubt as Aviation Alert Level Orange and Volcano Alert Level Watch. On January 25, 2009, the Alaska Volcano Observatory warned that Redoubt may erupt within "hours or days."[5] On January 28, 2009, the AVO released an information statement stating that an eruption similiar to its 1989/1990 event is the most likely scenario.

Mount Redoubt erupted in 1902, 1966 and 1989. The eruption in 1989 spewed volcanic ash to a height of 14,000 m (45,000 ft) and managed to catch KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 867, a Boeing 747 aircraft, in its plume (the flight landed safely at Anchorage). The ash covered an area of about 20,000 km² (7,700 sq. miles). The 1989 eruption is also notable for being the first ever volcanic eruption to be successfully predicted by the method of long-period seismic events developed by Swiss/American volcanologist Bernard Chouet.[6]

Mount Redoubt is not a particularly steep peak, but it is a massive mountain: it rises 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above the surrounding valleys to the north, south, and southeast in little over 5 miles (8 km).

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