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Ash from 100-year-old Novarupta volcanic eruption sweeps over Kodiak
Posted on November 1, 2012
November 1, 2012 – ALASKA - There
was volcanic ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight and parts of
Kodiak Island yesterday. A person in Port Lions called KMXT to ask if a
volcano had erupted, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory showed all was
normal. However, it turned out that a volcano had erupted, though it
wasn’t yesterday – it was almost exactly 100 years ago. The National
Weather Service office in Anchorage reported that ash from the Novarupta
explosion in 1912 was being whipped up by strong northerly winds
because of a lack of snow cover in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes and
Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. The ash was lifted to
about 4,000 feet and drifted over the Shelikof Straight and Kodiak
Island. It was a significant enough amount that the weather service
issued a warning to pilots, as volcanic ash can damage airplane engines.
Known as the Katmai Eruption, the 1912 explosion came from a volcanic
vent later named Novarupta. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the
20th Century and ash fell on Kodiak for three days. –Alaska Public
Thanks to: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
Posted on November 1, 2012
was volcanic ash in the air over the Shelikof Straight and parts of
Kodiak Island yesterday. A person in Port Lions called KMXT to ask if a
volcano had erupted, but the Alaska Volcano Observatory showed all was
normal. However, it turned out that a volcano had erupted, though it
wasn’t yesterday – it was almost exactly 100 years ago. The National
Weather Service office in Anchorage reported that ash from the Novarupta
explosion in 1912 was being whipped up by strong northerly winds
because of a lack of snow cover in the Valley of 10,000 Smokes and
Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. The ash was lifted to
about 4,000 feet and drifted over the Shelikof Straight and Kodiak
Island. It was a significant enough amount that the weather service
issued a warning to pilots, as volcanic ash can damage airplane engines.
Known as the Katmai Eruption, the 1912 explosion came from a volcanic
vent later named Novarupta. It was the largest volcanic eruption of the
20th Century and ash fell on Kodiak for three days. –Alaska Public
Thanks to: http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com
