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Dionne wrote:The Aleutian Islands are part of the ring of fire around the Pacific ocean. There has been seismic activity in that region for a long time. For Alaskans.....the smaller earthquakes (<3).....are as common as thunderstorms in the lower 48. The USGS typically records 800-900 earthquakes every week in the region extending from southern California to Attu Island. The greatest threat are tsunamis generated when the epicenters are below the ocean floor.
angelwing wrote:And did you see this? (I hope it wasn't posted already):
Biologists plucked from erupting volcanic island
By JULIA O'MALLEY | jo'malley@adn.com
Two U.S. Fish & Wildlife biologists were rescued from volcanic Kasatochi Island in the Aleutians today shortly before an eruption sent an ash plume 35,000 feet in the air
go here for the rest of the story:
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/486964.html
Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:Alaska Supervolcano Erupting?
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23 Jul 08 – “Note that not only is the caldera double the size of the one erupting in Chili,” says reader Charles P., “but that a sister volcano, outside the caldera, began erupting as well.”
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says the six-mile-wide caldera has
several vents erupting simultaneously. (Courtesy U.S. Coast Guard)
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that Okmok Volcano's six-mile-wide caldera has several vents erupting simultaneously.
Billowing ash clouds are reaching heights of up to 20,000 feet as seismic activity continues to fluctuate.
Geologists say they have been very busy trying to monitor not only the Okmok eruption, but also the erupting Cleveland Volcano nearby.
'I can't remember the last time we managed two eruptions at once, especially two so closely spaced on the volcanic arc,' said Tina Neal with the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
See entire article:
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8719449
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