Mount Redoubt Eruption Updates

Posted by Maureen K. Fleury Mar 24, 2009

The big news in the world of geology is the eruption of Mount Redoubt on the shores of Cook Inlet in Alaska.

I discovered this event by accident when I was looking at news stories for ideas on a new article. I came across a news flash that the Warning Code at Mount Redoubt had been escalated from yellow to orange. The article said that the mountain could erupt any time soon.

My research for the article on Mount Redoubt took me to the Alaska Volcano Observatory website where there were bulletins being issued every 15 minutes. From the time I saw the article at the news site and arrived at the AVO page, the Warning Code went to red and Mount Redoubt had erupted.

I stayed up most of the night finishing the article and looking for more bulletins from the Alaska Volcano Observatory. By the time I went to bed, there had been three eruptions. Two more eruptions occurred after that.

Yesterday (Monday), I was still going to the AVO site to look for updates. There was still some small eruptions and seismic activity but much more subdued. No lives were lost due to the eruption.

The cameras closest to the mountain stopped working after the explosion. One miraculously resumed broadcast the following day. The AVO did a fly over on Monday and posted more pictures. I wanted to share them with you.

I have posted 3 more pictures on my article, Eruption of Mount Redoubt, Alaska 2009.

I only have space for 5 pictures in the article so I posted additional pictures in this blog.