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 […]
A smoking mountain near the Yukon River not far from Eagle is, after further study, still a puzzle. People first noticed acrid smoke in September 2012. The mountain has been steaming ever since, even through the coldest days of winter. Scientists thought a likely cause for the smoldering mountaintop was an oily rock deposit that […]
On Oct. 6, 1883, this entry was in the Alaska Commercial Company logbook at an English Bay trading post, located about 50 miles northeast of Augustine volcano: “This morning at 8:15 o’clock, 4 tidal waves flowed with a westerly current, one following the other . . . the sea rising 20 feet above the usual […]
An earthquake measuring a magnitude 7.9 struck the western Aleutians, early Monday afternoon at 12:53 pm, triggering Tsunami warnings throughout the immediate area from Nikolski to Attu and a tsunami evaluation for all other coastal areas in the state and beyond. The earthquake was generated at a depth of 66.8 miles according to the Earthquake Hazard Program at […]