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January 31, 2009
Category: Volcanoes in the media
The "eruption watch" continues at Redoubt ... Saturday revealed that things are getting hotter at the summit near the 1989/1990 dome (see picture above that made Redoubt famous in 1989). The overflight of the volcano revealed new holes in...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:21 PM • 25 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
The Anchorage Daily News has an excellent article today on the Drift River Oil Terminal, a depository for oil collected from the platforms in the Cook Inlet. This oil terminal stores at least 1,000,o00 barrels of oil (see article...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 3:35 PM • 57 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 30, 2009
Category: Volcanoes in the media
I am surprised as anyone how the public has become captivated by this geologic drama unfolding at Redoubt. Headlines about the volcano are popping up everywhere from CNN to the MSNBC to Slashdot to Popular Science - yes, even...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:47 PM • 91 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 29, 2009
Category: Volcanoes in the media
It is either a slow news day, or something about the eruption watch at Redoubt has captured the attention of someone at CNN.com as it is now the headline on the website (see above). This is interesting (and odd)...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:45 AM • 89 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
January 28, 2009
Category: Volcano monitoring
A quick note (as I'm buried in zircon): The Alaska Volcano Observatory has installed a webcam at Redoubt to monitor for an eruption. It is a little cloudy today (not the image above), so not much can be seen,...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 2:22 PM • 13 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
January 27, 2009
Category: Volcanoes in the media
Sorry for the headline, but this is a quick update to emphasize the media and their love of destruction. For example, Redoubt is, indeed, showing signs of a pending eruption, but how large of an eruption is anyone's guess....
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 4:24 PM • 29 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
Category: Volcanoes in the media
The Colombian government has extended the evacuations near Nevado del Huila, taking 800 families out of the danger zone near the rumbling volcano. Huila has been making a lot of noise as of late, and Colombian officials in Ingeominas and...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:41 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 26, 2009
Category: Volcanoes in the media
I'm just toying with the new Wordpress Poll option, so I thought I'd throw this out at Eruptions readers. Enjoy! Feel free to leave comments justifying your pick. [polldaddy poll=1315061]...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 5:09 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Volcano monitoring
Eruptions reader Ross was very right in pointing out that something is up at Redoubt. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has put Redoubt on orange alert for aviation and suggest that an eruption could occur with "hours to days". The...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 12:55 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
January 24, 2009
Category: Volcano research
It is hard to believe that the eruption at seem to come out of nowhere at Chaiten started over 8 months ago now, and apparently is still not showing many signs of abating. I did get a chance to...
Posted by Erik Klemetti at 11:57 PM • 133 Comments • 2 TrackBacks
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