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Augustine Volcanoe
Here are a couple of articles from ADN.com (Anchorage Daily News) and a photo that was taken recently of Augustine Volcanoe.
How ready is the peninsula to deal with a major eruption?
section : alaska wire
last updated : January 1‚ 2006
Augustine will erupt soon, experts say
HOMER -- It's been a quiet week at Augustine Volcano. But scientists don't think prospects for a major eruption have changed. In fact, their mathematical models say it's likely magma has already risen above sea level on its way up the core of the 4,134-foot island volcano in Cook Inlet. Tremors registered by seismometers on the island diminished during the past week, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Friday. But seismic signals rose and fell that way in the weeks before the volcano's last eruption in 1986, said Game McGimsey, a U.S. Geological Survey volcanologist with the observatory. In 1986, the island blew off steam and then trembled for eight weeks before finally producing an
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