Jury duty is done, so here is a little update.
Redoubt is puffing away, producing a more prominent steam plume than it has over the last week (but that may be more weather-related than magma-related.) Beyond that, the volcanic gases keep coming and the earthquakes keep coming.
8 responses to “Redoubt Mini-update for 2/9/2009”
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Gerhardus,
that comment could be taken in such a wrong way lol. personally Volcanoes are like sleeping old men, poke them with a stick and they grumble and mutter, and occasionally they wake up and give you a full on shouting at. -
While it appears quite certain that magma is rising toward the surface within Redoubt, I wouldn’t be all that surprised if this time it just started building a lava dome, without much explosive activity. Volcanoes do that sometimes. Remember Mount St. Helens in 2004, when there were just a few small hydrothermal (steam) explosions before a nearly purely effusive, dome-building activity started? Or Kelud in Indonesia in 2007, a volcano that in the past had always erupted violently explosively, but this time it quietly extruded viscous lava to build a big dome? Also Nevado de Huila in Colombia is not producing very much explosive activity (the deadly November eruption may have been largely due to interaction of hot dome lava with glacier ice) but rather building a dome.
Time will tell … -
OK 1 question … volcanoes male or female ??
lol Looks to me that it might be female …she’ll blow when she feels like it when nobody expected it -
C’mon Mt Redoubt …… it’d be really good to have a new case study for teaching!!
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