New Eruption Started at Alaska's Pavlof

The lava fountain at Pavlof during the eruption that started on November 12, 2014. Image: Carol Damberg / AVO. It has been a fairly quiet year for the volcanoes of Alaska. A few have rumbled but none have really had an eruption that caught everyone's attention like recent events at Veniaminof, Redoubt or Kasatochi. It appears that Pavlof might be trying to make up for some of that lost time as a new eruption has started at the volcano. The Alaska Volcano Observatory is reporting ash reaching ~2.7 km (9,000 feet) and images of the volcano taken from Cold Bay clearly show a lava fountain (see above) coming from the most recently active vent. Seismicity remains high at the volcano, suggesting that the eruption isn't likely to stop immediately and visibility is touch and go with low cloud cover. This is the second bout of lava fountaining that Pavlof has ...