Redoubt rumbling prompts volcano alert - Southcentral Alaska

[Blue_In_AK]

Oh, this could get interesting -- following on the heels of the earthquake yesterday. http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/667425.html

New seismic activity at Mount Redoubt increased significantly early Sunday and may be the prelude to an eruption, "perhaps within hours to days," the Alaska Volcano Observatory is reporting.

Geologists upgraded the aviation color code for Redoubt from yellow to orange at 2:09 a.m. Sunday, indicating that an eruption may be imminent.

The volcano, which lies about 50 miles west of Kenai and 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, last erupted over a four-month period, from 1989 to 1990.

Sunday afternoon, scientists from the observatory flew over the volcano and determined that it hadn't erupted yet, said AVO volcanologist Dave Schneider. Monitoring of Redoubt will now proceed around the clock, Schneider said.

I can see Redoubt Volcano from my HOUSE, or from just down the road anyway. Yikes. The last time it went off, it was a pretty big deal.

[InternalDialogue]

1. I've been seeing all the tremor reports (several today, in addition to the bigger one yesterday)

and I was wondering if that amount of activity was normal. I guess it's a bit outside the range to spur an alert of that sort.

Hope it's not any kind of worst-case scenario for you.

[Garbo 2004]

2. Yikes indeed. Redoubt page at AK Volcano Observatory site:

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/activity/Redoubt.php

Take care up there.

[Fireweed247]

3. Oh sheeeiiitt!

This is NOT what I wanted to read. I am 50 miles away and still getting over the earthquake. I can't help but the think the two are connected, the earthquake was centered in the same area.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. That's what I thought, too.

They go together. Were you here when it went off before? The volcanoes are always such a mess.

[Fireweed247]

6. I wasn't here when redoubt went off but I've heard about it!

I was here for Augustine a few years back...

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Spurr went off a few years ago, too.

That one was amazing -- it was like a huge thundercloud coming up from the west. It was so striking because it had been a beautiful sunny day. I'd never seen anything quite like that.

[Eurobabe]

5. Oh crap!

Get an evacuation plan ready!! :scared:

[Blue_In_AK]

7. We should be okay.

I was here when it went off before. It was a big mess for a while, but nothing life-threatening.

[Sinistrous]

9. Many moons ago, I could watch Redoubt from my living room.

There was always a plume of steam coming from it back then.

[ConsAreLiars]

10. The last one was a good coincidence for me.

My parents had gifted my SO and kids a trip with them to Alaska. I made the arrangements, including in them a flight to Nome for the usual "dinner theater for the tourists performance" at their insistence (a waste, in my view), but Mt Redoubt went off, planes were grounded, and we added a few more days in the Kenai Peninsula instead.

[Adsos Letter]

11. Pictures, Blue, Pictures!!!

just kidding...stay safe!

[WhoDoYouTrust]

12. Hubby is scheduled to go on Thursday.

He used to work there at a small camp at the base until he retired. Now, he goes over periodically for a contractor. It was amazing what the last eruption did to the terrain. I wasn't here then, but have seen lots of pictures. Fishing for silvers in Drift River was a real adventure for me.

Keeping my fingers crossed that it settles down.