Some interesting pics after an overflight...Lava dome building, expected to collapse of course during next eruption. Sixth (and most violent so far) eruption was last night at 7:41pm AKDT and lasted for 17 minutes.
Ash reached at least 60,000 feet and is drifting North/North West about 40 miles so far. Very fine particles up to 8 miles in altitude...those aren't expected to fall, but are expected to circulate & cause problems for aircraft.
Some flights have been affected out of/into Ted Steven's International Airport. Elmendorf AFB has as many aircraft as possible inside hangars.
We can typically see just the top of it to the Southwest looking out our kitchen window. It's been overcast, so haven't seen it from the house.
Here's a nice pic from Anchorage on a clear day. (Mt. Redoubt is on the left with a steam plume.)
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another cool pic from an eruption April 21, 1990. &
another nice one from February 1990.
We can see the ash spreading over the Susitna Valley on the west side of Cook Inlet across from Anchorage...but so far, it's avoiding Anchorage. Nasty, hard, corrosive stuff!!
Magma has reached the top, pyroclastic flows are occurring and a crude oil storage terminal was shut down & evacuated with flooding over the helicopter pad & more on the way. They measured 6-8 meters in depth above the Drift River valley floor & traveled 35 kilometers to Cook Inlet.
What else? :thinking:
