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Alaskans Prepare For Volcanic Eruption
An anonymous reader writes "Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of Alaska. The once quiet volcano has begun to roar once again. Its last eruption was in 1989 and geologists suggest that the next one is upon us. Alaskans who lived through the earlier eruption are stocking up on breathing masks and goggles. Starting on Friday, January 23 2009, the level of seismic activity increased markedly, and on Sunday AVO raised the Aviation Color Code to ORANGE and the Volcano Alert Level to WATCH. On the basis of all available monitoring data AVO regards that an eruption similar to or smaller than the one that occurred in 1989-90 is the most probable outcome. We expect such an eruption to occur within days to weeks." From the AP article: "Alaska's volcanoes are not like Hawaii's. 'Most of them don't put out the red river of lava,' said the observatory's John Power. Instead, they typically explode and shoot ash 30,000 to 50,000 feet high — more than nine miles — into the jet stream. 'It's a very abrasive kind of rock fragment,' Power said. The particulate has jagged edges and has been used as an industrial abrasive. 'They use this to polish all kinds of metals,' he said." The server for the Alaska Volcano Observatory appears to be overloaded and is unresponsive.
My grandpappy stayed on this mountain, and I'll be damned if I'm going to leave it! I'm staying righ#@$#@%$NO CARRIER
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Yse, perpare! Seh's gnona bolw!
And so you post a direct link to it on the slashdot front page?
Way to go, kdawson, way to go. You've ensured the Alaska Volcano Observatory site is going to be down even longer.
Why would you do that? Did that site molest you when you were young or something?
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So I guess Sarah Palin is not the only thing from Alaska that emits a lot of gas and hot air.
Given her foreign policy credentials, are the Republican talking heads going to advance this event as proof of her experience with geology and vulconalogy?
Have you ever being in an earthquake? those in which you can listen the earth "roaring"? A volcano it's a bit more frightening since earth roars, smells like the Erebus should smell and the sight of a 5 mile high gray cloud makes it apocalyptic.
It can't be as bad as Katrina. There are currently over 1,000,000 people in the New Orleans metro area. That's AFTER Katrina; the population of new Orleans literally dropped in half since 2000. And Katrina affected a heck of a lot larger area than just the New Orleans metro.
The entire state of Alaska has around 680,000 people.
So while this has the potential to be a major disaster, it will never be anything as bad as Katrina in scale and number of people affected.
one would say.. "it's like the earth wants to get rid of us" but thats crazy talk. It's more like the underground Molemen are pissed off by all the media coverage for things like tsunamis and fires. Maybe Dr. Evil allied with the Molemen and tried to blow the inners of the earth again but Austin Powers could not do anythings since he converted to some kind of guru. I blame religion for this.
I live across from Redoubt.
...ok...
There are another 12 active volcanos in the area.
There is the valley of ten thousand smokes which is a super volcano (Katmia)there also.
I have been through several of these since '75. Augustine (three times) Redoubt (now the third time) Spurr, so it isnt anything special.
It does however give me a chance to sit on the beach and video tape the event hopefully.
So nothing to see here, go back to your wimpy ice storms and snow while we Alaskans handle the real manly stuff
There there now nothing to be frightened of...just a little volcano farting....
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