arguchik | it's gonna blow!

sweet! pavlof volcano in alaska is fixin' to erupt. god, i really wish i could be up there where i could see it happen. they are reporting earthquakes at a frequency of about one per minute, and satellite images show lots of heat at the summit. i looked at a couple of the satellite pics--it's really neat, the peak glows white while the surrounding landscape, including another volcano nearby, shows as shades of gray. i hope it's a major, explosive eruption. it's a stratovolcano, like st helen's, so that could happen. (yeah, i admit it...i have a fascination with natural disasters. they say no towns are in danger, though, so it's not like i'm wishing death and destruction to any people or anything; and i'm willing to bet the earthquakes have already inspired most of the wildlife to vacate. i think the worst that could happen is that they might have to divert a few airplanes.)

i shoulda been a geologist. volcanoes seriously excite me. someday i would love to do a world volcano tour. if nothing else, i definitely want to climb up to the top of st helen's to look at the pretty new lava dome. they say that at the current rate of lava extrusion, the 1300' that blew off the top of st helen's will be rebuilt in about 160-70 years. that means we could see the summit fill in the crater within my lifetime. is that fucking cool or what?