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Hazard information management during the autumn 2004 reawakening of Mount St. Helens volcano, Washington
The 2004 reawakening of Mount St. Helens quickly
caught the attention of government agencies as well as the
international news media and the public. Immediate concerns
focused on a repeat of the catastrophic landslide and blast
event of May 18, 1980, which remains a vivid memory for
many individuals. Within several days of the onset of accelerating seismicity, media inquiries increased expone
Authors
Carolyn L. Driedger, Christina A. Neal, Tom H. Knappenberger, Deborah H. Needham, Robert B. Harper, William P. Steele
Overview of the 2004 to 2006, and continuing, eruption of Mount St. Helens, Washington
Rapid onset of unrest at Mount St. Helens on September 23, 2004, initiated an uninterrupted lava-dome-building eruption that continues to the time of writing this overview (spring 2006) for a volume of papers focused on this eruption. About three weeks of intense seismic unrest and localized surface uplift, punctuated by four brief explosions, constituted a ventclearing phase, during which there w
Authors
William E. Scott, David R. Sherrod, Cynthia A. Gardner
Managing public and media response to a reawakening volcano: lessons from the 2004 eruptive activity of Mount St. Helens
Volcanic eruptions and other infrequent, large-scale
natural disturbances pose challenges and opportunities for
public-land managers. In the days and weeks preceding an
eruption, there can be considerable uncertainty surrounding
the magnitude and areal extent of eruptive effects. At the same
time, public and media interest in viewing developing events
is high and concern for public safety on
Authors
Peter M. Frenzen, Michael T. Matarrese
Note from the Hubbert Quorum
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Authors
Steven E. Ingebritsen, Shaul Hurwitz, E. E. Brodsky
Variability of passive gas emissions, seismicity, and deformation during crater lake growth at White Island Volcano, New Zealand, 2002-2006
We report on 4 years of airborne measurements of CO2, SO2, and H2S emission rates during a quiescent period at White Island volcano, New Zealand, beginning in 2003. During this time a significant crater lake emerged, allowing scrubbig processes to be investigated. CO2 emissions varied from a baseline of 250 to >2000 t d-1 and demonstrated clear annual cycling that was consistent with numbers of ea
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C. Werner, T. Hurst, B. Scott, S. Sherburn, B.W. Christenson, K. Britten, J. Cole-Baker, B. Mullan
Modeled tephra ages from lake sediments, base of Redoubt Volcano, Alaska
A 5.6-m-long lake sediment core from Bear Lake, Alaska, located 22 km southeast of Redoubt Volcano, contains 67 tephra layers deposited over the last 8750 cal yr, comprising 15% of the total thickness of recovered sediment. Using 12 AMS 14C ages, along with the 137Cs and 210Pb activities of recent sediment, we evaluated different models to determine the age-depth relation of the core, and to deter
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C.J. Schiff, D. S. Kaufman, K.L. Wallace, A. Werner, T.-L. Ku, T. A. Brown
An exact solution for ideal dam-break floods on steep slopes
The shallow‐water equations are used to model the flow resulting from the sudden release of a finite volume of frictionless, incompressible fluid down a uniform slope of arbitrary inclination. The hodograph transformation and Riemann's method make it possible to transform the governing equations into a linear system and then deduce an exact analytical solution expressed in terms of readily evaluat
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C. Ancey, Richard M. Iverson, M. Rentschler, Roger P. Denlinger
Kaguyak dome field and its Holocene caldera, Alaska Peninsula
Kaguyak Caldera lies in a remote corner of Katmai National Park, 375 km SW of Anchorage, Alaska. The 2.5-by-3-km caldera collapsed ~ 5.8 ± 0.2 ka (14C age) during emplacement of a radial apron of poorly pumiceous crystal-rich dacitic pyroclastic flows (61–67% SiO2). Proximal pumice-fall deposits are thin and sparsely preserved, but an oxidized coignimbrite ash is found as far as the Valley of Ten
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J. Fierstein, W. Hildreth
Dynamic stresses, Coulomb failure, and remote triggering
Dynamic stresses associated with crustal surface waves with 15-30-sec periods and peak amplitudes < 1 MPa are capable of triggering seismicity at sites remote from the generating mainshock under appropriate conditions. Coulomb failure models based on a frictional strength threshold offer one explanation for instances of rapid-onset triggered seismicity that develop during the surface-wave peak dyn
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David P. Hill
Permeability of continental crust influenced by internal and external forcing
The permeability of continental crust is so highly variable that it is often considered to defy systematic characterization. However, despite this variability, some order has been gleaned from globally compiled data. What accounts for the apparent coherence of mean permeability in the continental crust (and permeability–depth relations) on a very large scale? Here we argue that large‐scale crustal
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S.A. Rojstaczer, S. E. Ingebritsen, D.O. Hayba
Upper conduit structure and explosion dynamics at Stromboli
Modeling of very long period seismic data recorded during explosive activity at Stromboli in 1997 provides an image of the uppermost 1 km of its volcanic plumbing system. Two distinct dike-like conduit structures are identified, each representative of explosive eruptions from two different vents located near the northern and southern perimeters of the summit crater. Inferred volumetric changes in
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Bernard A. Chouet, Phillip B. Dawson, Marcello Martini
The 2005 catastrophic acid crater lake drainage, lahar, and acidic aerosol formation at Mount Chiginagak volcano, Alaska, USA: Field observations and preliminary water and vegetation chemistry results
A mass of snow and ice 400-m-wide and 105-m-thick began melting in the summit crater of Mount Chiginagak volcano sometime between November 2004 and early May 2005, presumably owing to increased heat flux from the hydrothermal system, or possibly from magma intrusion and degassing. In early May 2005, an estimated 3.8??106 m3 of sulfurous, clay-rich debris and acidic water, with an accompanying acid
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J.R. Schaefer, W. E. Scott, William C. Evans, J. Jorgenson, R. G. McGimsey, B. Wang