113 years since the largest Alaska eruption

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jun 6, 2025   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

To put the largest eruption in Alaska’s written history in context, Robert Griggs pondered what might have happened if the volcano that erupted in summer of 1912 was located on Manhattan Island rather than the Alaska Peninsula. “In such a catastrophe all of Greater New York would be buried under ten to fifteen feet of […]