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Alaska's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow... just a heads up for those interested

 
The Veiled Prophet
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Alaska's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow... just a heads up for those interested
Just sharing a Heads Up... for those interested...

[link to hisz.rsoe.hu]
The alert level for Cook Inlet's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow
......after a series of small, repetitive earthquakes......
early today near the summit, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.
The earthquakes may be a harbinger of "renewed eruptive activity"
at Redoubt, but it's unclear if the volcano will erupt
or if its lava dome is at risk of collapse, the observatory said.
Similar small earthquakes were recorded near the volcano in December,
but they subsided and there was no eruption, said Rick Wessels,
a geophysicist at the observatory. The observatory said Monday's
series of earthquakes near Redoubt's summit began at about 1:44 a.m.
and continued into the afternoon. Redoubt, on the west side of Cook Inlet,
106 miles southwest of Anchorage, has erupted several times since the 1960s.
Its last major eruption was spring 2009. That eruption caused a mudflow
that partially flooded the Drift River Oil Terminal near the base of the
10,197-foot volcano. The volcanic eruptions also caused flight disruptions
then -- hundreds of flights diverted from Anchorage over concerns that an
ash cloud could damage airplane engines. Monday's yellow alert means
that Redoubt is being closely monitored for a possible increase in activity.
The volcano observatory is a joint program of the U.S. Geological Survey,
the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Alaska state agencies.

Active Web-Cams .... for ALL ... Alaska Volcanoes...
[link to www.avo.alaska.edu]
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Re: Alaska's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow... just a heads up for those interested
Interesting...keep watch. Here's Cali's seismos:
[link to quake.usgs.gov]
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Re: Alaska's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow... just a heads up for those interested
The Iceland volcano no sooner has and earthquake near it ... and this one hits again... the Redoubt Webcam URL showing on original post beginning this thread.. has two other webcams that you can check out for this volcano if it does not show up...
see below for UPDATE... on Redoubt Volcano...
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Situation Update No. 2
On 06.04.2010 at 16:45 GMT+2

A swarm of small earthquakes began Monday at Mount Redoubt in what scientists said was a warning that the volcano could be waking from its slumber. "It is reminding us that it is an active volcano," said Rick Wessels, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage. The small quakes started about 1:45 a.m. near the summit of Mount Redoubt, a 10,197-foot volcano about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage. The regular pattern of the tremors are often seen when magma is moving inside a volcano, Wessels said. Researchers plan to fly through the steam plume of the volcano later this week and measure three chemical compounds linked to volcanic activity -- sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. Scientists do not know if the earthquakes will lead to the volcano again becoming explosive, but they said that was a heightened possibility. Redoubt has erupted several times since the 1960s. Its last major eruption was last winter and spring, including 19 significant eruptions over several weeks that sent ash plumes as high as 65,000 feet and cloaked parts of Southcentral Alaska in up to a half-inch of ash. Residents donned face masks and covered their cars and trucks to keep the ash off the finish and out of the engines. One eruption caused a mudflow that partially flooded the Drift River Oil Terminal near the mountain's base. The volcanic eruptions also caused hundreds of flights to be diverted from Anchorage over concerns that an ash cloud could damage airplane engines. On Monday, said Steve McNutt, a University of Alaska Fairbanks research professor, "We were going along quietly and all of a sudden, boom, we started getting these small earthquakes."

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Re: Alaska's Redoubt volcano was raised to yellow... just a heads up for those interested
There is going to be 2 more volcanic eruptions this year, though on opposite sides of the planet, are going to be related to one another.





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