Some news from the Chaiten eruption. Apparently, LanChile has cancelled some flights around the region of southern Chile due to the ash. They likely implies that the eruption column is bigger than reported by the SERNAGEOMIN on Monday, but the report has little in the way of details. Sounds like the volcano is still huffing and puffing away. Definitely one of the more important and interesting eruptions in the last few hundred years and it has the Cascades Volcano Observatory along with the USGS VDAP buzzing (based on some conversations I’ve had recently), even almost four weeks in.
9 responses to “Chaiten ash cancels flights”
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I think the buzz is mostly because we haven’t seen a rhyolite eruption of this scale in the 20th/21st century. The closest might have been the Valley of 10,000 Smokes/Kitmai eruption in Alaska in 1912, but no one got out there to see the effects until weeks afterwards (and that eruption only lasted 2 days vs. the weeks at Chaiten!) I think the geology community will be buzzing about Chaiten for a long time.
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Interesting that there is still a lot of buzz about this eruption. Of course it is difficult to predict what will happen next, but what are the other scientists buzzing about? Do they think this could turn into a much larger eruption, i.e. Tambora or Krakotoa?
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