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Redoubt Volcano, or Mount Redoubt (Dena'ina: Bentuggezh K’enulgheli), is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at the head of the Chigmit Mountains subrange in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve , the mountain is just west of Cook Inlet , in the Kenai Peninsula Borough about 110 ...
The 2009 eruptions of Mount Redoubt renewed concerns over the safety of the nearby tank farm which holds crude oil, known as the Drift River Terminal Facility. [3] During the earlier, 1989–90 eruptions of Redoubt, the facility was inundated and damaged by lahars.
The Boeing 747-406M, less than six months old at the time, flew through a thick cloud of volcanic ash from Mount Redoubt, [1] which had erupted the day before. Aircraft [ edit ]
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
Mount Redoubt [63] Alaska, United States 2009 20 2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity: 4 Kasatochi [64] Alaska, United States 2008 13.7 0.15–0.28 [65] 4 Chaitén [66] Chile 2008 30 0.5–1 [67] 1 [68] The town of Chaitén, located about 10 km southwest of the eruption site, was blanketed with ash. About 4,000 people who lived there were ...
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there are around 1,350 potentially active volcanoes around the world outside of the continuous range of volcanoes as part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. In the ...
Subglacial eruption: 1 water vapor cloud, 2 lake, 3 ice, 4 layers of lava and ash, 5 strata, 6 pillow lava, 7 magma conduit, 8 magma chamber, 9 dike Explosive subglacial eruption of Mount Redoubt, Alaska Subglacial lava dome extrusion at Mount Redoubt, Alaska. Subglacial eruptions, those of ice-covered volcanoes, result in the interaction of ...
About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate.