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The 2009 eruptions of Mount Redoubt renewed concerns over the safety of the nearby tank farm which holds crude oil, known as the Drift River Terminal Facility. [3] During the earlier, 1989–90 eruptions of Redoubt, the facility was inundated and damaged by lahars.
April 21, 1990 eruption column (to a height of about 5.6 mi (9 km)) [16] from Redoubt Volcano as viewed to the west from the Kenai Peninsula Fumaroles observed on the side of Mount Redoubt on January 31, 2009 Fumarole on March 21, 2009, the day before the eruption A plume of vapor from Mt Redoubt as seen from space on 5 May 2009.
Mount Redoubt [63] Alaska, United States 2009 20 2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity: 4 Kasatochi [64] Alaska, United States 2008 13.7 0.15–0.28 [65] 4 Chaitén [66] Chile 2008 30 0.5–1 [67] 1 [68] The town of Chaitén, located about 10 km southwest of the eruption site, was blanketed with ash. About 4,000 people who lived there were ...
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
This eruption also sent up a gas cloud about 15,000 high. Together, these two power volcanic eruptions deposited emissions of trace gases an aerosols into the atmosphere. These emissions formed a sulfate aerosol layer that totaled a transfer of 1.6 Tg of SO 2 into the stratosphere and disturbed flights over this area for a short period ...
1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 3,000 Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 Indonesia: 1856 [6] 2,033 Oshima Oshima: 4 Japan: 1741 1741 eruption of Oshima ...
The 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused about 20 countries to shut down air traffic for a week, affecting more than 10 million travelers and costing the industry billions of dollars.
Mount Redoubt [144] Alaska, United States 1989–1990 Second costliest volcanic eruption in United States history. Caused engine failure of all four engines on KLM Flight 867 after it flew through the ash cloud. 3 Nevado del Ruiz [124] Colombia 1985 23,000 Armero tragedy: 3 Mount Etna [103] Italy 1979 9 A sudden phreatic explosion killed 9 ...