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Sunday Morning Volcano: a day early!

AVO has raised Pavlof’s alert status after detecting a type of earthquake there that signifies magma movement. Here is their statement.

As they note, volcanic unrest often ends without an eruption, according to everything I have read, but eruptions are always preceded by unrest, if only for a few minutes.

Pavlof volcano is not close to any big population center, but it is the most active Aleutian Arc fire mountain, and its eruptions are a local problem as well as a hazard to international aviation.

Also, if and when Pavlof goes off, we could see some stirring sights, as we did in 2013…

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…and in 2016:

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More information:

• Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) page
• OSPO VAAC advisories
• Global Volcanism Program page
• Pavlof has a (dormant) twin!

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Featured image: Matt Loewen/Alaska Volcano Observatory/USGS https://avo.alaska.edu/images/dbimages/1756502652.jpg

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