Yunaska 1830
Start: 1830 [1]
Event Type: Explosive
Max VEI: 2 [2]
- Lahar, debris-flow, or mudflow [3]
Description: Grewingk (1850, translated 2003 by Fritz Jaensch): writes that there was an expulsion of ashes from Yunaska in 1830.
Mushketov and Orlov (1893, translated in 1994 by Katharine Arndt) wrote: "In the same year [1830] an earthquake at the volcano Yunaka [sic; Yunaska?] and an eruption of flame and ash, in which there appeared a torrent which formed from melted snow or from rain and, like the sea water, was colored black." Mushketov and Orlov cite Grewingk (1850) and Perrey (1866).
Mushketov and Orlov (1893, translated in 1994 by Katharine Arndt) wrote: "In the same year [1830] an earthquake at the volcano Yunaka [sic; Yunaska?] and an eruption of flame and ash, in which there appeared a torrent which formed from melted snow or from rain and, like the sea water, was colored black." Mushketov and Orlov cite Grewingk (1850) and Perrey (1866).
References Cited
[1] Grewingk's geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America [edited by Marvin W. Falk, translation by Fritz Jaensch published 2003], 1850
Grewingk, Constantine, 1850, Grewingk's geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America [edited by Marvin W. Falk, translation by Fritz Jaensch published 2003]: Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series 11, Fairbanks, AK, The University of Alaska Press, 242 p.[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.[3] Katalog zemletriasenii Rossiiskoi imperii [Catalog of earthquakes in European and Asiatic Russia from 596 B.C. to 1887 A.D. inclusive], 1893
Mushketov, I.V., and Orlov, A.P., 1893, Katalog zemletriasenii Rossiiskoi imperii [Catalog of earthquakes in European and Asiatic Russia from 596 B.C. to 1887 A.D. inclusive]: St. Petersburg, Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 582 p., 2 sheets.[4] The volcanic region of Alaska, 1884
Petroff, Ivan, 1884, The volcanic region of Alaska: in Population, Industries, and Resources of Alaska, Washington DC, Government Printing Office, p. 93-96.
full-text PDF 10.9 MB 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
Katalog zemletriasenii Rossiiskoi imperii [Catalog of earthquakes in European and Asiatic Russia from 596 B.C. to 1887 A.D. inclusive], 1893
Mushketov, I.V., and Orlov, A.P., 1893, Katalog zemletriasenii Rossiiskoi imperii [Catalog of earthquakes in European and Asiatic Russia from 596 B.C. to 1887 A.D. inclusive]: St. Petersburg, Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 582 p., 2 sheets.
The volcanic region of Alaska, 1884
Petroff, Ivan, 1884, The volcanic region of Alaska: in Population, Industries, and Resources of Alaska, Washington DC, Government Printing Office, p. 93-96.
full-text PDF 10.9 MB 
Documents sur les tremblements de terre et les phenomenes volcaniques des iles Aleutiennes, de la peninsule d'Aljaska et de la cote no. d'Amerique, Extrait des memoires de l'Academie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon, 1865, 1866
Perrey, Alexis, 1866, Documents sur les tremblements de terre et les phenomenes volcaniques des iles Aleutiennes, de la peninsule d'Aljaska et de la cote no. d'Amerique, Extrait des memoires de l'Academie des sciences, arts et belles-lettres de Dijon, 1865: Dijon, J.E. Rabutut, 131 p.
Grewingk's geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America [edited by Marvin W. Falk, translation by Fritz Jaensch published 2003], 1850
Grewingk, Constantine, 1850, Grewingk's geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America [edited by Marvin W. Falk, translation by Fritz Jaensch published 2003]: Rasmuson Library Historical Translation Series 11, Fairbanks, AK, The University of Alaska Press, 242 p.
Hard Copy held by AVO at FBKS - CEC shelf