Posted on 01/29/2006 12:14:57 PM PST by Species8472
Augustine Volcano kicked back to life with five eruptions Friday night and Saturday morning -- then a new burst of prolonged, near-continuous activity that began anew Saturday night and continues this morning.
Ash from the all-night rumbling is drifting south and southwest, according to the National Weather Service, which has issued ash fall advisories through 2 p.m. today for Kodiak Island, the Gulf of Alaska and much of the Alaska Peninsula, including the towns of King Salmon, Dillingham and Naknek.
The new non-stop eruptions, sending ash to an estimated 15,000, has left grit in the air throughout that region, according to the National Weather Service.
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You might want to get out of there if you are near the volcano. A pyroclastic flow (shoulc one happen) is deadly.
Right, you're an Alaskan Freeper. Do you have any further information on this...?
I'm 150 miles away!
Well, looks like this is the "big one". Better get your ash out of there!;)
Global warming. Ban volcanoes.
Not much chance of that. The island that holds the volcano is uninhabited. Not much risk to anyone from any pyroclastic flows.
Prayers up for Alaska!!!! Keep up us posted my friend we want you safe....
Source : Alaska Volcano Observatory (http://www.avo.alaska.edu)
Kathy is it blowing your way?
This is post #12 and no one has blamed Bush yet?
actually, 'global warming' , or more accurately the global climates is affected by volcano eruptions in the form of cooling the atmosphere.
Ach du lieber, Augustine!
this is dick's fault, bush is off today.
That sure makes for a messy winter. Ugh!
"this is dick's fault, bush is off today."
Apologies, I forgot what day it was.
Augustine is 180 miles ssw of Anchorage and I'm about 35 miles north of Anchorage, been monitoring the webicorder of seismicity and its been doing some tremendous readings especially at 11:18am AST, there was a long heavy reading, earlier at the 10:16am webcam on the island you can see the pyroclastic flows. BTW AST is one hour earlier than Pacific Standard Time.
Ash fallout is primarily heading SSW or towards Kodiak Island and is extremely light by reports, the major concern now is the possiblity of a cone or flank collapse that would trigger a tsunami, and thats BAD for Homer a sizable fishing community about 75 miles away. Homer Spit a narrow spurr out into the bay and is a tourist spot and is very low lying.
I was living in Anchorage when a closer volcano (MT. Spurr) erupted and deposited an inch or two over town back in 1992, air filters for cars and trucks were scarce I tell you! I was working at a Grand Auto store then.
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