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Alaska's Redoubt volcano erupts three times
Newsminer.com ^ | 3.23.2009 | n/a

Posted on 03/23/2009 4:14:42 AM PDT by wolfcreek

FAIRBANKS — After months of rumbling, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted three times late Sunday and early Monday.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; boom; catastrophism; redoubt; volcano
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

I’m about 140 miles north by north west, look at the map and look between Houston and Wasilla, thats where I am, Kathy in Alaska is in Anchorage, which I think is 100 miles from Redoubt.

I just checked the snow and no ash yet, its more to the east of me but is now reported to be falling on the ground as far as Talkeetna another 60 or more miles further north from me.

the weather patterns are more to the north, they have usually been north-west to west.


21 posted on 03/23/2009 5:32:48 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: uglybiker

That’s hot.


22 posted on 03/23/2009 5:50:50 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Eye of Unk

The volcano is pretty far from Anchorage. People forget the scale of Alaska.

Other than ash clouds and airplanes this isn’t really much of a threat to human life at all.


23 posted on 03/23/2009 5:56:08 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Have you ever been to Alaska?


24 posted on 03/23/2009 5:57:35 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Eye of Unk

No, but I can read a map, and I’ve read the Redoubt Volcanic hazard report.


25 posted on 03/23/2009 5:58:06 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

It has a potential to be very much a threat, it can explode laterally and kill thousands across the Cook Inlet, and it could trigger an earthquake such as the 1964 Good Friday quake, it could create a tsunami, we lost a whole town the last time.

Its a stratovolcano, its big, over 10,000 ft. Its really quite nothing to sneer at.


26 posted on 03/23/2009 6:02:11 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Clive

bump for later


27 posted on 03/23/2009 6:11:00 AM PDT by freebird5850 (O-Bomba is not the Messia. Jesus was a carpenter and could build a cabinet!)
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To: Eye of Unk
It's only about 4-500 feet higher than Mount St Helens.

Also here's a map showing the damage from MSH's 1980 eruption.

Looking at this and looking at the map above showing the scale? Sure fishing traffic in the Cook inlent could take a hit but the cities should be safe if ash covered if that volcano blows. The map shows Redoubt a few miles inland from the coast as well.

28 posted on 03/23/2009 6:15:59 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (01-20-2009 : The end of the PAX AMERICANA.)
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To: Eye of Unk
It has a potential to be very much a threat, it can explode laterally and kill thousands across the Cook Inlet, and it could trigger an earthquake such as the 1964 Good Friday quake, it could create a tsunami

No, ESPECIALLY no, and no.

29 posted on 03/23/2009 6:23:42 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Eye of Unk

I strongly suggest you read this:

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/pdfs/redoubt.hazards.ofr.pdf


30 posted on 03/23/2009 6:24:20 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Centurion2000

The Possible directed blast radius from the hazard report barely reaches Cook Inlet, much less Anchorage.


31 posted on 03/23/2009 6:27:34 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: concerned about politics
What is this Web Bot prediction you are referring to?
32 posted on 03/23/2009 6:28:46 AM PDT by Heartland Mom ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Strategerist
No, but I can read a map, and I’ve read the Redoubt Volcanic hazard report.

Well, I can read a medical book and have watched lots of hospital dramas...want me to take your appendix out? (sorry, couldn't help myself!)

33 posted on 03/23/2009 6:34:55 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: Strategerist; Eye of Unk
The town was Portage. I spent some time in Anchorage in 2006 working on a contract job, and took a train ride down to Whittier one Saturday for a tour of Prince William Sound. On the way, we stopped in what was left of Portage, which was nothing more than rotten roofs sticking up out of the swampy ground. Even more amazing was the "ghost" forest near the town, which died after salt water flowed into its root system.

I agree with Unk, in that Alaska, being part of the same geological system as Indonesia and Java (site of Kraktoa, Toba, Tambora, etc), volcanoes and earthquakes are nothing to take lightly, no matter where they are located and how far from the population centers they occur.


34 posted on 03/23/2009 6:36:36 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Eye of Unk
we lost a whole town the last time.

Unk, was that "old Valdez"? I saw that....awesome (not awesome as in cool, awesome as in jaw-dropping)

35 posted on 03/23/2009 6:37:10 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

As usual and I feel a little sad saying it, is that nobody can ever claim to be an expert on ANYTHING here in Alaska unless you have lived her a full calender year, or several years of southern and northern Alaska.

I live here, I have no PHD or fancy diplomas or drive a Beemer, I’m an Alaskan, I may not be the best person to quote state facts but I do know what we live with.

Its like Alaska is a whole new world, I give up trying to educate the out of staters that say oh no it cannot be that way up there, its America so it must be as we think its like the lower 48.

OK, you can stay there wherever, the basement, the penthouse, or blogging from another country, you are still viewing from the outside, good luck with your theories!

I am not going to argue with the internet experts about whether Redoubt is just a passive volcano venting some ash and steam compared to a possible Krakatoa, preach what you believe I suppose.

And I appreciate your comments Virginia Ridgerunner, I’ll keep posting what I see around me.


36 posted on 03/23/2009 6:57:14 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Eye of Unk

Unk, I have been to Alaska twice in the past 2 years. The reason I LOVE Alaska is cos it’s like a whole ‘nother world (which is why my kids live there (by Wasilla).

So, you keep telling us what you know. You’re there, we’re not (but I am still offering that free appendectomy to that other poster!)

Now for the stupid “lower 48” questions. Is there worry about a tsunami? I love the “Tsunami evacuation route” signs by Valdez! I mean, of course I hope that doesn’t happen, I just found it really funny (in my mind, stupidity) that not all tsunamis happen around tropic islands.

I see that Anchorage and the Mat-Su valley schools plan to open today, so that means the ash clouds are not expected to head up the valley?


37 posted on 03/23/2009 7:09:13 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: blu

No Valdex was rebuilt. Portage sank, and was never rebuilt or repopulated. It’s now just a ghost town with rotten old roofs sticking up out of the ground, with the railroad going through it.


38 posted on 03/23/2009 7:10:24 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: blu

So far its not affecting the heavier populated areas, the wind pattern actually has it heading in the least populated direction, now tomorrow it looks like it will change.

Tsunami in Alaska is a very real threat, in 1964 there was an inlet down near the Kenai Peninsula that recorded I think a wave height of over 85 feet. And with our tides the second highest on earth at over 40 feet we can have serious damages even from a small wave effect at high tide.

As far as I can tell all the schools are on schedule, my kids will be leaving soon.

The webicorder is quiet again, its building up pressure again I think.


39 posted on 03/23/2009 7:19:23 AM PDT by Eye of Unk ("If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." T. Paine)
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To: Eye of Unk

Thanks for the news.

Here’s the link for the webicorder (which I think means it’s the seismic actvity picture thingy...LOL!) http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webicorders/Redoubt/
for us volcano-newbies.


40 posted on 03/23/2009 7:37:12 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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