Akutan 1992/12

Start: December 18, 1992 [1]

Event Type: Explosive

Max VEI: 1 [2]

Event Characteristics:
  • Tephra plume [1]
  • Central eruption [1]

Description: From Smithsonian Institution (1992): "A small ash cloud * * * rose to a maximum altitude of 1.8 km (several hundred meters above the summit) shortly after 1445 on 18 December. The plume was carried ~20 km N, then rapidly dissipated."

References Cited

[1] Akutan, 1992

Smithsonian Institution, 1992, Akutan: Global Volcanism Network Bulletin v. 17, n. 11, unpaged.

[2] Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition], 1994

Simkin, Tom, and Siebert, Lee, 1994, Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition]: Tucson, Arizona, Geoscience Press, 349 p.

Complete Eruption References

Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition], 1994

Simkin, Tom, and Siebert, Lee, 1994, Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition]: Tucson, Arizona, Geoscience Press, 349 p.
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC shelf

Akutan, 1992

Smithsonian Institution, 1992, Akutan: Global Volcanism Network Bulletin v. 17, n. 11, unpaged.