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Bringing the world to a standstill

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on May 23, 2021   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Bringing the world to a standstill

On a fine June day about 100 years ago, in a green mountain valley where the Aleutians stick to the rest of Alaska, the world fell apart. Earthquakes swayed the alders and spruce. A mountain shook, groaned, and collapsed in on itself, its former summit swallowing rock and dust until it became a giant, steaming […]

Eruption of Alaska’s Okmok Volcano Linked to Period of Extreme Cold in Ancient Rome

By NSF Public Affairs on Jul 7, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Eruption of Alaska’s Okmok Volcano Linked to Period of Extreme Cold in Ancient Rome

  An international team of scientists has found evidence connecting an unexplained period of extreme cold in ancient Rome with an unlikely source: a massive eruption of Alaska’s Okmok volcano, located on the opposite side of the Earth. Around the time of Julius Caesar’s death in 44 BCE, written sources describe a period of unusual […]

June 9th, 1912

By Alaska Native News on Jun 9, 2020   This Day in Alaskan History  

June 9th, 1912

New Method May Help Anticipate Large Volcanic Eruptions

By Fritz Freudenberger | Geophysical Institute on May 20, 2020   Featured, Science/Education, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

New Method May Help Anticipate Large Volcanic Eruptions

  Volcanic eruptions are not easy to anticipate. Now, a new paper proposes a way to provide early clues by evaluating magma movement far beneath volcanoes. The Bárdarbunga volcanic system in Iceland began to erupt from a fissure on Aug. 29, 2014. By the time it quit six months later, it had created an almost 33-square-mile lava […]

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