Anchorage Daily News: Just so you know, that volcano is still acting volcanically
When a news outlet has a big story locally, it keeps after it day after day. So for any lava and ash plume fan who needs a Mount Redoubt fix, here’s the latest, at length and with plenty on seismic activity, red alerts, and the formation of a new dacitic (ok, just guessing that) dome. It’s from the Daily News‘s James Halpin and Richard Mauer. For the moment, the mountain is running at a steady but low pace. Great explosions, or nothing much, could happen again any time.
It has one highly informative tidibit for those worried about the oil tanks at a nearby, evacuated terminal. Operators told the reporters that even if barges could be gotten safely to the site, removing the oil before a conceivable flood of glacial melt through the adjacent Drift River might wash through the site would be horrendously difficult. More important, the tanks are not designed to be completely drained with any ease. And if left nearly empty, but still with lots of oil, they’d be bouyant. A flood might carry them off only to be wrecked somewhere else. “We don’t want to create a situation that is riskier than it is now.” Good thinking.
Grist for the Mill: Alaska Volcano Observatory Redoubt page ;
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