Augustine Volcano sits alone, a 4,000-foot pyramid on its own island in Cook Inlet. Like many volcanoes, it has a tendency to become top heavy. When gravity acts on Augustine’s oversteepened dome, rockslides spill into the ocean. A scientist recently found new evidence for an Augustine-generated tsunami from a time when Egyptian pharaohs built their […]
The five-day eruption of Pavlof, on the left flank of the bay with the same name in the Aleutians, has ramped down and is now been downgraded to “orange” after one day being at “red” as of Sunday. On Saturday, the activity at the volcano escalated quickly with a plume of ash that ascended to […]
