Volcanoes - Recent/Current Activity

[venture]

Hut CAM is finally back online, i think, for Redoubt. If it is a real/live image...you can definitely see a lot of dark colored flows on the mountain side where melting ice/snow flooded down. Peak is still clouded over.

[metro]

link?

[westsidesooner]

Hut cam: Alaska Volcano Observatory Webcam - Redoubt - Hut

Hut cam would be a lot more useful if it was light for more than 30 seconds each day. Heres a pic taken from the drift river basin after the flooding and mudflows, anyone know if the flooding reached the oil terminal?



More pics on the AVO site, they're really impressive when you look at them in full size. Redoubt - Historic eruptions

[venture]

Quick update. They lowered the alert level back to Orange yesterday, but it is back to red now for an ongoing ejection of ash up to 30,000ft. HUT cam is still operating, but some clouds in the area are block the view. The weather system that dumped a ton of snow up there should be clearing out before too long.

[southernskye]

A major explosive event occurred at 09:24 AKDT. Pilot reports the cloud height to be at least 65,000 ft above sea level.

[westsidesooner]

This Volcano really is bipolar. I looked this morning and it was down to Orange with not much seismic activity. Now she throws another hissy fit. Looks like the NCTwebicorder (NW of Redoubt) might have been knocked out again. I cant get it to come up. Wish the clouds would clear off at the hut......argh. Sounds like another pretty big eruption taking place.

[venture]

Mostly cloud on the webcam. Last few minutes have noticed a massive lahar/flooding area on the left side of the mountain.

[westsidesooner]

Mostly cloud on the webcam. Last few minutes have noticed a massive lahar/flooding area on the left side of the mountain.

Did you see the lahar on the hut cam? How often does it refresh? I haven't looked at it much and just assumed it was on about a 5 minute refresh. I'll have to watch more carefully. The buildup in the drift river basin is getting pretty deep and with each new lahar I would think that the danger downstream would increase. Any word on the oil terminal? I noticed on Anchorage radar the explosion was visible, and appears smoke/ash are drifting SW.

[venture]

Yeah it was on the hut cam. Looks like it is a 2-5 min refresh, but one shot was snow covered (due to the snow they just had) next...huge black stream down the side. You can still make it out now.

[southernskye]

Any word on the oil terminal?

Cook Inlet Pipe Line Company

[westsidesooner]

I see the mudflow now, I just wasn't looking at the right time. And SouthernSkye "Thanks" for the terminal notice. I've been curious about that since this event started weeks ago. Big mess to clean up if those tanks get breached.

[southernskye]

Article on Huffpo about chevron in cook inlet

"Worker safety is paramount, and we need to ensure the oil can be removed in a safe and orderly fashion," said Bob Shavelson, executive director of Cook Inletkeeper. "But we never knew Chevron planned to keep 6 million gallons of crude at the base of an erupting volcano until yesterday, because Chevron kept hiding behind the façade of Homeland Security."

[venture]

Posting the hut cam link again in this thread. Partly cloudy now and ash plum rising.

[HSC-Sooner]

A volcano in Oklahoma would be neat to have, help balance off the mutt of a geological sample that we are already. It would be interesting to see if there is any increased drilling activity in that area that could be triggering these more.

It would be interesting if the Raton hotspot reactivated itself. The Mt. Capulin volcano is fairly young and it sits in NW New Mexico.