Mount Redoubt Volcano Erupts
Explosively Overnight and This Morning
Scientists from the Alaska Volcano
Observatory will host a news conference at 1:30PM AKDT (5:30PM EASTERN
TIME) at the USGS Alaska Science Center in the Glenn Olds Hall Conference
Room, Anchorage, AK, to discuss the continuing eruption of Mount Redoubt
Volcano and yesterday's (March 26) overflight of the volcano.
Mount Redoubt Volcano, 106 miles
southwest of Anchorage, Alaska, erupted again explosively last night and
this morning.
Who: Media
What: AVO Redoubt Volcano eruption update
Time: 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM AKDT/5:30 PM –
6:30 PM EASTERN TIME
Date: March 27, 2009
Call-in: 877-953-4172
Participant
Code: 8654249#
Place: USGS Alaska Science Center
Glenn
Olds Hall
Glenn
Olds Conference Room
4210
University Drive
Anchorage,
AK 99508
AVO’s dynamic website (http://www.avo.alaska.edu)
contains extensive information about present and past volcanic activity
in Alaska and is increasingly popular as a destination for real-time data
about Alaska’s restless volcanoes.
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program of the U.S. Geological Survey, the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Geophysical Institute, and the Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical
Surveys. The USGS provides science for a changing world. For more information,
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