Recent Activity at Little Sitkin, Alaska

NASA Landsat image of Little Sitkin island. Image courtesy SJ Smith via AVO, 2001

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The M7.0 Anchorage Earthquake of 2018

Minnesota offramp. There is a marshy area off the photo to the right (west). Soil liquefied underneath the road fill and it moved. Vehicle was recovered intact. Driver was not harmed. Image courtesy ADN. https://www.adn.com/tag/11-30-18-alaska-earthquake/

Bering Sea Basalt Province

Bering Sea volcanic province. Screen capture from Winer, et al.

Geothermal exploration at Mount Spurr 2008 – 2011

Summit of Mount Spurr August 2011. Crater lake created in 2004 is frozen over again. Crater is refilling with snow. Fumarole field remains. https://volcano.si.edu/showreport.cfm?doi=10.5479/si.GVP.BGVN201201-313040

Ongoing eruptions at Bogoslof Volcano Eruption of December 2016 – January 2017

Initial plume from Bogoslof on Dec. 20, 2016. Photo courtesy AVO via NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/30/science/an-alaskan-volcano-bogoslof-erupts-largely-out-of-view.html?ref=oembed&_r=0

A survey of Alaskan calderas and large eruptions

Semisopochnoi Volcano (upper right) – http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=48154

Mount Churchill and the White River Ash

Bona – Churchill from the North looking up Russell Glacier http://www.skolaiimages.com/stock/displayimage-4404-Mount-Bona-Russell-Glacier-Wrangell-St-Eli.html

Hayes Volcano, Alaska – another previously unknown volcano

Mount Hayes, Tordrillo Mountains, Alaska. Photo courtesy AVO / USGS

Strong Earthquake near Mount Iliamna, Alaska

Mount Iliamna from the air. http://www.summitpost.org/mount-iliamna-volcano/663126

Tectonics of the Kamchatka Peninsula

Kliuchevskoi volcano group in eruption, Nov. 16, 2013 – http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/12/04/volcanoes_from_space_two_eruptions_seen_from_the_iss.html