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WATCH: Lava spews from Veniamanof Volcano in Southwest Alaska

Alaska’s most active volcanoes sit far from the state’s population centers, and often spurt ash or steam, but for pilots in the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians, a sighting of a volcano isn’t out of the ordinary.


Courtesy Joe Timmreck
Captain Joe Timmreck, who flies for Ace Air, captured dramatic video of lava flows on the side of Veniaminof Volcano in Southwest Alaska Wednesday. Timmreck says he and his copilot Nicholas Huling were flying a usual route between Anchorage and Sand Point when they caught sight of the lava flows. With Huling’s help flying, Timmreck was able to capture more than three minutes of footage of lava flows making their way down the side of the remote mountain.

“I’ve never seen anything like that in my flying career,” Timmreck, who’s flown for Ace for 11 years, says, noting the volcanoes on the Aleutian chain are often more active than Veniaminof. “It kindof makes you feel small.”

Timmreck says he’s been flying the Anchorage-Sand Point route for the last year, though sometimes his path doesn’t go over the volcano. He wasn’t in the area for his flight Thursday, but says barring weather or other conditions, he may fly through the area again Friday.

Veniaminof Volcano is 20 miles from Perryville, Alaska, a community of about 100 people on the Alaska Peninsula. Lava flows were first spotted Monday by passengers on the state ferry.

https://watchers.news/2018/09/14/huge-amounts-of-gas-emanating-from-katla-volcano-charging-for-eruption-iceland/

Huge amounts of volcanic gas are emanating from the Katla volcano since at least October 2016, leading researchers to believe this huge volcano under Mýrdalsjökull glacier in Iceland is charging up for a new eruption. The last known eruption of this volcano took place in 1918 (VEI 4). It has historically erupted once every 40 to 80 years, making it statistically long overdue for a new eruption.

Evgenia Ilyinskaya, a volcanologist from the University of Leeds, and a member of the group of scientists who detected the gas from Katla said that the discovery of huge amounts of gas came as a complete surprise. A high concentration of carbon dioxide was flowing out of the Iceland volcano and there wasn’t any similar activity at other volcanic areas in the vicinity, she said.

"We’re seeing around 20 kilotons of carbon dioxide every day, which is an astonishing amount," Ilyinskaya told RÚV. "It is highly unlikely that these emissions could be produced by geothermal activity. There must also be a magma build up to release this quantity of gas."

"We’ve measured there two years in a row. We measured in October 2016 and October 2017, but we’d like to do further research. We need to know whether the gases are constant in such a large proportion or if it has increased. We know that, in other volcanic areas in the world, for example, in Hawaii and Alaska, the gases increase weeks or even years before an eruption. It’s clear that we need to continue to monitor Katla."

"This is a clear sign we need to keep a close eye on Katla. She isn't just doing nothing, and these findings confirm that there is something going on."

Geological summary
Katla volcano, located near the southern end of Iceland's eastern volcanic zone, is hidden beneath the Myrdalsjökull icecap. The subglacial basaltic-to-rhyolitic volcano is one of Iceland's most active and is a frequent producer of damaging jökulhlaups, or glacier-outburst floods.