January 30, 2009 - Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Volcano

“Mount Redoubt is still rumbling and simmering, prompting geologists to repeat their warning that an eruption may be imminent.” - Anchorage Daily News



Mount Redoubt is a 10,197-foot-stratovolcano in Alaska's Lake Clark National Park
and Preserve Chigmit Mountains. Mt. Redoubt erupted in 1902, 1966 and 1989. The eruption in 1989 spewed volcanic ash to a height of 14,000 meters (45,000 ft) and managed to catch KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 867, a Boeing 747 aircraft, in its plume (the flight landed safely at Anchorage). For five months, the ash disrupted international air traffic and dusted the Anchorage region over an area of 20,000 square kilometers (7,700 sq. miles). The 1989 eruption was the first ever volcanic
eruption to be successfully predicted in a long-period seismic events method developed
by Swiss/American volcanologist Bernard Chouet. Images source: Wikipedia.

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