volcano erupting in alaska

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We need Roger to be our eye witness news reporter on the ground.

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That about 1000 miles away from the ole Shrubber.

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The explosive outburst at Novarupta (Alaska) in June 1912 was the 20th century’s most voluminous volcanic eruption. Marking its centennial, we illustrate and document the complex eruptive sequence, which was long misattributed to nearby Mount Katmai, and how its deposits have provided key insights about volcanic and magmatic processes. It was one of the few historical eruptions to produce a collapsed caldera, voluminous high-silica rhyolite, wide compositional zonation (51–78 percent SiO2), banded pumice, welded tuff, and an aerosol/dust veil that depressed global temperature measurably.

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I was in a t-shirt fishing in sunshine watching snow fall back toward my house.


<<---- is jealous.

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When Redoubt erupted I went down there and watched for a bit.

fricking Redoubt...nearly crashed in a twin huey because of that bitch in 1990

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As the crew of KLM Flight 867 struggled to restart the plane's engines, "smoke" and a strong odor of sulfur filled the cockpit and cabin. For five long minutes the powerless 747 jetliner, bound for Anchorage, Alaska, with 231 terrified passengers aboard, fell in silence toward the rugged, snow-covered Talkeetna Mountains (7,000 to 11,000 feet high). All four engines had flamed out when the aircraft inadvertently entered a cloud of ash blown from erupting Redoubt Volcano, 150 miles away. The volcano had begun erupting 10 hours earlier on that morning of December 15, 1989. Only after the crippled jet had dropped from an altitude of 27,900 feet to 13,300 feet (a fall of more than 2 miles) was the crew able to restart all engines and land the plane safely at Anchorage. The plane required $80 million in repairs, including the replacement of all four damaged engines.

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