[Strategerist]

This is another "Cook Inlet" volcano which is somewhat near Anchorage; Mt. Spurr Volcano has been at Yellow status just to the North of this one for over a year, without erupting.

Both volcanoes erupt often and there's really no massive horrible deadly disaster potential, the worst case scenario is really a long-term disruption of flights into Anchorage due to ash (which would be a severe economic impact there) and possible need to re-route trans-Pacific air traffic.

[Republican Wildcat]

A lot of greenhouse gases - the EPA should ban volcanoes.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

A lot of volcano activity right now, if I'm not mistaken.

[Americanwolf]

Yeah, but with Mt. St. Helens doing her little eruption fits.. there is a lot of activity in the Pac Rim Volcanoes... Possibly some major plate activity building possibly not. will be interesting to see.

[oceanview]

all I want to know is - can they use this as an excuse to raise gas prices?

[The South Texan]

Now that Hurricane season is officially over in a few hours, I guess we can start the Volcano watch live thread.


Put me on the ping list. LOL!

[thackney]

This histogram shows the number of earthquakes located within 8 km of the summit of Augustine Volcano between January 1, 1995 and November 27, 2005. Note that the current increase began in early May 2005. The current rate of earthquake activity observed at Augustine is well below that seen prior to the last eruption in 1986.

[Stingray51]

Quick, somebody tell Ted Stevens so he can use our money to build a bridge to study this volcano.

[Mike Darancette]

St Augustine Seismograph, Looks like something is happening 12/06/05.