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Volcano Erupts In Southwest Alaska, Sending Ash 20,000 Feet (google.com)

Posted by timothy on from the why-can't-it-just-salivate? dept.

USA Today reports that according to the U.S. Geological Survey, the Pavlov Volcano, "about 600 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted at 4:18 p.m. local time. The agency says the eruption also led to tremors on the ground. ... The USGS has raised the volcano alert level to "Warning" and the aviation warning to 'Red.'" Television station KTUU of Anchorage has a few photos of the emerging ash plume, which has so far risen to about 20,000 feet (hence that aviation warning).

76 comments

  1. Tremors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    I think I felt those tremors in the ground and I live in Knik. (Near Wasilla and across the bay from Anchorage.)
    Thought it was the start of an earthquake but apparently it was a volcano.

    1. Re:Tremors by Aighearach · · Score: 1

      So that's what that "volcano monitoring" stuff is about!

      http://wonkette.com/414938/rem...

    2. Re:Tremors by KGIII · · Score: 2

      It looks like a pretty good disruption at about 12:20 local time.
      http://www.avo.alaska.edu/webi...

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    3. Re:Tremors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can you still see Russia from your house, or is the smoke too thick now?

    4. Re:Tremors by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 1

      I think I felt those tremors in the ground and I live in Knik. (Near Wasilla and across the bay from Anchorage.)

      Povlof is about 600 miles (1000 km) from Anchorage. It is extremely unlikely that you felt the tremor at that distance.

      Since you live there, I shouldn't have to tell you this, but Alaska is big.

    5. Re:Tremors by Tulsa_Time · · Score: 1

      Fabricated quote from SNL that was attributed to Sara Palin.

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    6. Re:Tremors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      What kind of internet you got in Knik, population 744?

    7. Re: Tremors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Like all the stuff Geo W saidified?

  2. ÃoeWarningà by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

    How do you pronounce "ÃoeWarningÃ"?

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    1. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's probably an icelandic word. If you can pronounce Eyjafjallajökull then âoeWarningâ is a walk in the park.

    2. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Hognoxious · · Score: 0

      Seen that word before. It means "timothy is an asshat", I think.

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    3. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      AoE Warning!

      Since volcano obviously does AoE damage!

    4. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's like the many words for snow in the language of the Inuit: Americans are so scared of everything that they have very nuanced words for all kinds of warnings and dangers. This one probably implies the wrath of a deity or the number of feet you'd have to stack to get the size of the plume or something.

    5. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This is exactly how I read it. Mod parent up "+1 some tangentially geeky joke on an otherwise dying site".

    6. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Don't stand in the ash, noob!

    7. Re:ÃoeWarningà by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      Virtual +1 Funny.

      How are people still getting mod points? My Karma has been positive for months and I haven't had mod points in nearly a year, if not more. I can't even recall.

    8. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      the inuit words for snow thing is mostly an overblown myth. here are some english words for snow i can think of off the top of my head i might confuse as all meaning simply winter precipitation if i weren't from somewhere that snow if a part of every day life half of the year: snow, sleet, graupel, hail, blizzard, flurry. that's not to mention other distinctions such as powdery snow, wet snow, thundersnow, drifting snow, avalanche (bit of a stretch but i'm using my right brain for this one), ground blizzard, etc. study languages from many different parts of the world and this is quite unsurprising.

    9. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's because your username is unpronounceable.

    10. Re:ÃoeWarningà by ShaunC · · Score: 1

      As best as I can tell, it's been tied to metamoderation for some time now. If you don't metamod, you're never going to get mod points; when I do get them, it's typically a few minutes after submitting the metamod form.

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    11. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Applehu+Akbar · · Score: 1

      So the Australians don't really have 400 different words for 'vomit' and the Hawaiians don't actually have 400 different terms for 'fucking haole'?

    12. Re:ÃoeWarningà by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      metamoderation?

    13. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      No, it is not tied to metamoderation, as I have done that once, like a month ago, and I have always been flush with mod points.

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    14. Re:ÃoeWarningà by Quirkz · · Score: 1

      I don't think I've ever metamoderated, and I get mod points every week or two.

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  3. 20,000 feet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    And that's 6km for us in the rest of the world using international / SI standard.

    1. Re: 20,000 feet... by O('_')O_Bush · · Score: 1

      Thanks Google calculator.

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  4. Sorry, couldn't resist by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Both Palin and Putin can see it from their houses.

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    1. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Aighearach · · Score: 2

      I don't think they exiled Puttiput to Siberia just yet.

    2. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Hognoxious · · Score: 1

      In Soviet Russia, earthquake feels you!

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    3. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by jeffasselin · · Score: 0

      She immediately posted on twitter that it was Obama's fault.

      Putin obviously blamed it on gay people.

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    4. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by chadenright · · Score: 2

      In America, if an earthquake feels you, you can sue it for harassment and emotional damages.

    5. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Unless you are getting on a plane at the time.

    6. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Salgak1 · · Score: 1

      . . . so would that require a "Tremor Warning". And what did you have in mind for the "Safe Space". . .

    7. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I can't. I'm a white male, so it's my fault.

    8. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Notorious+G · · Score: 1

      I think you meant Tina Fey. Bizarre how propaganda flows into even the most insignificant areas of your life.

    9. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      She actually did say something similar to that. Fey merely "decorated" and exaggerated it for comedy purposes.

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    10. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's funny how people mistake facts for propaganda and propaganda for "values"

    11. Re:Sorry, couldn't resist by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      http://www.snopes.com/politics...

      What she ACTUALLY said is true though, not some ignorant line. You can see Russia from some islands in Alaska. However, I can't see how that would have any effect on Palin's ability to negotiate with Russia as she was being asked.

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  5. Oh! Thank ${DEITY}!!! by NoNonAlphaCharsHere · · Score: -1, Troll

    Something to blame AGW on!!!!!!

  6. Also check out the Alaska Volcano Observatory by aklinux · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.avo.alaska.edu/acti...

  7. Pavlov volcano by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did someone ring a bell?

    1. Re:Pavlov volcano by dwye · · Score: 2

      Did someone ring a bell?

      THANK YOU! Someone finally makes the obvious comment, and it has to be an AC so modding it up helps no one.

    2. Re:Pavlov volcano by U2xhc2hkb3QgU3Vja3M · · Score: 1

      I knew that name sounded familiar.

      Hey look, cookies!

    3. Re:Pavlov volcano by boristdog · · Score: 1

      I don't know, but that volcano makes me salivate.

    4. Re:Pavlov Volcano by Tablizer · · Score: 1

      More like the volcano is drooling. God must be ringing a bell.

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  8. Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

    Fuck Whiplash, just look at the number of articles with less than 20 posts.

    Maybe listening to the whinging minority wasn't the greatest of ideas, eh? But hey, you are an 'entrepreneur', so I guess it's not your money that's is being pissed at the wall.

    1. Re:Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      There are just fewer people posting in general. But you'll need more evidence that there's been a large drop in comments since whiplash took over the site. I think it's more likely that comments have been declining for the past decade, long before whiplash got involved. It was common to see articles on the front page with 200-300 comments, something that's far more rare now. Of those, probably 20-25% were trolls posting or being modded to -1, something that has declined markedly. I'd venture a guess that commenting is particularly low right now because Easter Sunday is just coming to an end, and a lot of people probably spent the day with their families and not on Slashdot. I also think that logged in users left in significant numbers starting 10-15 years ago and continuing through the present. It seems like many of the users I used to interact with stopped posting around 2004-2006, something that the current crew can't be blamed for. Limits on how often users can post have also become stricter, so there are probably fewer posts being made. There's also a lot more competition from other blogs and some sites like Reddit. If you want Slashdot to be a lively place again, perhaps you should post how you think it should be done rather than simply posting a flame directed at the new overlords.

    2. Re:Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      There are just fewer people posting in general. But you'll need more evidence that there's been a large drop in comments since whiplash took over the site. I think it's more likely that comments have been declining for the past decade, long before whiplash got involved. It was common to see articles on the front page with 200-300 comments, something that's far more rare now. Of those, probably 20-25% were trolls posting or being modded to -1, something that has declined markedly. I'd venture a guess that commenting is particularly low right now because Easter Sunday is just coming to an end, and a lot of people probably spent the day with their families and not on Slashdot. I also think that logged in users left in significant numbers starting 10-15 years ago and continuing through the present. It seems like many of the users I used to interact with stopped posting around 2004-2006, something that the current crew can't be blamed for. Limits on how often users can post have also become stricter, so there are probably fewer posts being made. There's also a lot more competition from other blogs and some sites like Reddit. If you want Slashdot to be a lively place again, perhaps you should post how you think it should be done rather than simply posting a flame directed at the new overlords.

      Fuck off, go back to sucking Logan's dick.

    3. Re:Who gives a shit? by jafiwam · · Score: 1

      Fuck Whiplash, just look at the number of articles with less than 20 posts.

      Maybe listening to the whinging minority wasn't the greatest of ideas, eh? But hey, you are an 'entrepreneur', so I guess it's not your money that's is being pissed at the wall.

      They are finally blocking some of the spam.

    4. Re:Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      pretty well put. we now have https with utf-8 supposedly in the works so at least the site is coming up to date with current technologies.

      there are a lot fewer social "justice" stories these days which is a lot nicer. those pretty much dropped to 0 a week or two after the current overlords took control. i don't mind them every now and then. tech does have diversity issues but unfortunately people in tech can do little at best about it. anybody who really wants to learning computing can. my usual advice is to grab a ruby or python install, learn vim, and run through a linux from scratch. there's not much i can do if certain demographics can't be arsed to do that even when i'm personally available to answer questions and offer guidance. it's true though that social "justice" stories were one of the big comment attracters.

      i'm honestly not sure if letting us acs post willy nilly is a good idea. on the other hand, we have one ac who is obviously using a botnet/vpn/tor/etc to post entire conversations with himself usually about how republicans hate children but he's had some variety lately at least. the only restriction i've run into while logged in is that i have to wait 5 minutes between clicking reply and clicking submit.

      no idea if slashdot will ever be what it once was again.

    5. Re:Who gives a shit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I also think that logged in users left in significant numbers starting 10-15 years ago and continuing through the present. It seems like many of the users I used to interact with stopped posting around 2004-2006, something that the current crew can't be blamed for.

      The number of AC's increasing on SLASHDOT. People frequenting here are above average IQ. Join the dots. You should have known better who's to be blamed.

    6. Re:Who gives a shit? by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      'm honestly not sure if letting us acs post willy nilly is a good idea. on the other hand, we have one ac who is obviously using a botnet/vpn/tor/etc to post entire conversations with himself usually about how republicans hate children but he's had some variety lately at least.

      There is also APK who would shitpost whole torrents of spam. It seems he has mostly backed off recently though.

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  9. âoeWarningâ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    âoeWarningâ?

    Fucking hell Whipslash, remember when you proudly exclaimed that there were no longer any non-native English speakers on the Slashdot editorial team?

    Fuck us for believing you.

    1. Re:âoeWarningâ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1

      What is it with all these Timothy haters?

      Remember the Dice days? When Traffic Signal
      Invented by Garrett A. Morgan in 1923? Nope.

      The first known traffic signal appeared in London in 1868 near the Houses of Parliament. Designed by JP Knight, it featured two semaphore arms and two gas lamps. The earliest electric traffic lights include Lester Wire's two-color version set up in Salt Lake City circa 1912, James Hoge's system (US patent #1,251,666) installed in Cleveland by the American Traffic Signal Company in 1914, and William Potts' 4-way red-yellow-green lights introduced in Detroit beginning in 1920. New York City traffic towers began flashing three-color signals also in 1920.

      Garrett Morgan's cross-shaped, crank-operated semaphore was not among the first half-hundred patented traffic signals, nor was it "automatic" as is sometimes claimed, nor did it play any part in the evolution of the modern traffic light.
      [return to top] Gas Mask
      Garrett Morgan in 1914? Nope.

      The invention of the gas mask predates Morgan's breathing device by several decades. Early versions were constructed by the Scottish chemist John Stenhouse in 1854 and the physicist John Tyndall in the 1870s, among many other inventors prior to World War I.
      [return to top] Peanut Butter
      George Washington Carver (who began his peanut research in 1903)? Nope.

      Peanuts, which are native to the New World tropics, were mashed into paste by Aztecs hundreds of years ago. Evidence of modern peanut butter comes from US patent #306727 issued to Marcellus Gilmore Edson of Montreal, Quebec in 1884, for a process of milling roasted peanuts between heated surfaces until the peanuts reached "a fluid or semi-fluid state." As the product cooled, it set into what Edson described as "a consistency like that of butter, lard, or ointment." In 1890, George A. Bayle Jr., owner of a food business in St. Louis, manufactured peanut butter and sold it out of barrels. J.H. Kellogg, of cereal fame, secured US patent #580787 in 1897 for his "Process of Preparing Nutmeal," which produced a "pasty adhesive substance" that Kellogg called "nut-butter."
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      "Discovered" hundreds of new and important uses for the peanut? Fathered the peanut industry? Revolutionized southern US agriculture? Nope.

      Research by Barry Mackintosh, who served as bureau historian for the National Park Service (which manages the G.W. Carver National Monument), demonstrated the following:

      Most of Carver's peanut and sweet potato creations were either unoriginal, impractical, or of uncertain effectiveness. No product born in his laboratory was widely adopted.
      The boom years for Southern peanut production came prior to, and not as a result of, Carver's promotion of the crop.
      Carver's work to improve regional farming practices was not of pioneering scientific importance and had little demonstrable impact.

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    2. Re:âoeWarningâ? by jrumney · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's Inuktitut for "It's snowing rocks, let's get the f**k out of here!"

    3. Re: âoeWarningâ? by Hognoxious · · Score: 0

      He was telling the truth. None of them speak English at all.

      RatatatataTISH!

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  10. âoeWarningâ? by johannesg · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's a local word, right? I don't know what it means but it sounds bad!

  11. On an island in the middle of the ocean by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It is pretty isolated, being 1000 km from anywhere.

  12. Mount Pavlof by riverat1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to Wikipedia it's spelled Pavlof. It's located pretty far out on the Alaska Peninsula.

    1. Re:Mount Pavlof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Flights from the west of North America to Asia pass through that region. They'll have some novel scenery to look at this time provided there's no trouble.

    2. Re:Mount Pavlof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Volcanic ash and jet engines are NOT good friends..

    3. Re:Mount Pavlof by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      According to Wikipedia it's spelled Pavlof.

      Were you conditioned to say that?

      Captcha: stimuli

    4. Re:Mount Pavlof by riverat1 · · Score: 1

      :)

  13. Aha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    So THAT'S why my dogs suddenly started salivating!

  14. Groovy! by JockTroll · · Score: -1

    Hail to the king, baby!

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  15. Sarah Palin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I bet she *can* see that from her front porch.

  16. nah by drinkypoo · · Score: 1

    Soot and ash drive global cooling, until they fall on the ice

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  17. Pavlov Volcano by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alaskans could tell it was the Pavlov Volcano because all of their dogs started drooling.

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  18. The internation aviation standard is feet. by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 1

    There are only a few countries that use meters, and most of them (e.g. Russia and China) aren't countries many people fly in and out of...

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    1. Re:The internation aviation standard is feet. by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      There are only a few countries that use meters, and most of them (e.g. Russia and China) aren't countries many people fly in and out of...

      ICAO uses meters, except in North America where it's feed due to existing convention.

      Pressure is in Pascals everywhere outside of North America as well (where it's inches of mercury). Likewise weather reports uses miles (both statute and nautical!), again only in this region.

      Modern airliners have a metric/imperial switch to switch the instruments between the two measurements. The rest of the world uses the metric measurements.

      It's actually all standardized so even in Canada you use the same units everywhere (though they do provide a metric conversion for sea level pressure for your altimeter setting. Though most altimeters here are, of course, in imperial.)

      The confusion happens because trade is done in metric, and a rather famous aircraft incident happened because of a poorly done imperial/metric conversion.

    2. Re:The internation aviation standard is feet. by dkman · · Score: 1

      Yes, I wish the US would get their heads out of their collective asses and make the switch. The medical industry and the military have used the metric system for years.

      I personally think we should have both numbers just about everywhere (they're already on food) but noticeably absent from speed limit signs. If we condition people for a period of time then the switch won't be so painful, but if we continue to do as little as possible we'll never do it.

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    3. Re:The internation aviation standard is feet. by Chibi+Merrow · · Score: 1

      ressure is in Pascals everywhere outside of North America as well (where it's inches of mercury).

      But "Two niner niner two" is so much easier to remember...

      Likewise weather reports uses miles (both statute and nautical!), again only in this region.

      Hmm are you sure it's only in that region? I know altitudes for PIREPs and SIGMETs and such are usually in feet and/or flight levels. Last I checked we parse international METARs, PIREPs, Winds Aloft, etc. the same way we do domestic ones, which would imply they're all using miles and feet/flight level...

      I don't spend much (read: any) time in cockpits internationally, so it could be that pilots regularly do change their altimeter setting between Imperial and Metric (though I've usually seen it as an installer-only setting), but all the WX data that comes across my desk is in Imperial... Well, except for temperature. That's always Celsius, because the freezing point is too convenient.

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    4. Re: The internation aviation standard is feet. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Famous incident involving Air Canada if I'm not mistaken?

  19. A brilliant plan by pellik · · Score: 1

    Whoever figured out how to train a volcano to erupt in a pavlovian style just saved the world. That ash will lower global temperature and fight warming!

    1. Re:A brilliant plan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, that and the CO2. *shrug*

  20. British Airways Flight 9 by asasdlfgnjl · · Score: 1

    "Falling from the Sky." Mayday. Season 4 Episode 2

  21. 20K Feet by pebear · · Score: 1

    Actually it's a small blast since this same volcano has sent plumes over twice that far in the relatively recent past. This guy is a very active volcano if not the most active one in the Aleutian islands.

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