The Alaska Volcano Observatory is planning to install a series of seismic instruments on Mount Edgecumbe near Sitka after preliminary measurements showed magma moving deep below the volcano. (via AlaskaBeacon)
near the volcano, and satellite radar measurements show the ground around the volcano bulging upward.
Mount Edgecumbe is now considered a “high” risk volcano, one step below the state’s “very high risk” volcanoes: Augustine, Spurr, Redoubt, Akutan and Makushin. There are no written accounts of eruptions from Mount Edgecumbe, but Tlingit oral tradition calls L’úx Shaa “a mountain blinking, spouting fire and smoke” about 800-900 years ago.
In October, they found something new — gas bubbling through several ponds on the east side of the island. About the same time, the observatory will be placing three or four additional instrument stations on the volcano.
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Sitka's Mount Edgecumbe volcano shows more signs of reawakening, scientists sayA new information update, released Friday, shows the earthquakes have continued, hikers have observed gas bubbling from the ground near the volcano, and satellite radar measurements show the ground around the volcano bulging upward. (From AlaskaBeacon)
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