In Januari maakten we d'r al melding van. Toen zou de berg tot uitbarsting komen, maar ineens doofde alles weer uit en leek er niets meer van te komen, tot de laatste dagen de seismische aktiviteit van de Redoubt ineens weer toenam. Vandaag was het dan zover. Met drie explosies is de berg ontploft. Onbekend is nog of Anchorage, de grootste stad van Alaska, gevaar loopt.
De laatste uitbarsting van de Redoubt was 20 jaar geleden en het verleden spreekt tegen de vulkaan. Uitbarstingen van de Redoubt waren altijd zeer explosief.
Dark areas show a mudflow from the peak of Mount Redoubt earlier this week.
LAATSTE UPDATE
quote:Mount Redoubt volcano in southern Alaska erupted four times on Friday, shooting ash as high as 51,000 feet, scientists said.
The latest eruption took place at 8:30 p.m. (12:30 a.m. Saturday ET), according to the National Weather Service. That eruption followed three other ones earlier Friday.
The eruptions are the latest in a series that began Sunday.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory said the alert level remains at its highest possible designation -- red -- indicating that an eruption is under way or imminent and that the eruption will produce a "significant emission of volcanic ash into the atmosphere."
The weather service said the ash is drifting north and northeast. However, only "very light" amounts are expected to fall Friday in the Anchorage area, about 100 miles east-northeast of the volcano.
Alaska Airlines limited flights to and from Anchorage on Friday, according to the airline's Web site. It canceled all its Thursday flights to and from Anchorage after an eruption earlier in the day sent an ash cloud 65,000 feet high
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[ Bericht 15% gewijzigd door Frutsel op 28-03-2009 12:37:58 (update) ]