[Strategerist]

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

[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, we lost a whole town the last time.

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

[blu]

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!)

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

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.