Mount Redoubt blows its top. Photo by Game McGimsey.
Hey everybody, check out my latest story for EARTH magazine on Alaska’s screaming volcano, Mount Redoubt:
In March 2009, Alaska’s Mount Redoubt awoke from two decades of silence with something to say: A series of small earthquakes leading up to the eruption produced a seismic sound that staff at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory nicknamed “the screams.” Now, two new studies are eavesdropping on Redoubt’s inner workings and quantifying the forces needed to produce the unusual harmonic tremors.
Read the rest of the story on EARTH’s website. It will also appear in the October issue of the magazine.
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I found your blog by googling “grayson highlands blog” last week and I’ve been reading through your archives ever since!! Sooooo much good stuff.
I was living in Anchorage when Redoubt blew – I have some ash that landed on my car (it wasn’t a lot)!
Oh wow! I remember when I was a kid my uncle in Oregon sent me some ash from Mount St. Helens for Christmas and I thought it was the coolest present ever!
You should do one on the Yellowstone super volcano. People can’t read enough about that.
sounds amazing! great shot.
Amazing, great article!
Interesting reading…. Yes, would be great to get your scientific take on what’s happening in Yellowstone.
I’ve written a few stories on Yellowstone. This is my latest: http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/corn-syrup-model-splits-yellowstone%E2%80%99s-plume-two.
Living near a volcanic area can yield some of the highest quality of water. I would be thrilled to have municipal water that comes from volcanic sources. I bet the locals there probably bottle that up and sell it….lol.