Event Name : Kasatochi 1760
This is a questionable event.Start: | 1760 | Observed | ![Information derived from: Grewingk's geology of Alaska and the Northwest Coast of America [edited by Marvin W. Falk, translation by Fritz Jaensch published 2003]](/images/icons/report.png) |
Active; type of activity not specified: |
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Eruption Type: | Other | |
MaxVEI: | 0 |
![Information derived from: Volcanoes of the world [2nd edition] BibCard](/images/icons/report.png) |
Description: Grewingk (1850, translated 2003 by Fritz Jaensch) writes that in 1760, Koniuji island was rising.
Coats (1950) attributes historical eruptions of Koniuji to Kasatochi instead, because Koniuji is "deeply eroded" and "does not appear to have been active in Recent time." Lending credence to this thought is Bergsland's (1959, p. 35) publication which records the Aleut place name of Kasatochi as "qana-tanar" = which island, as in "which island is it that is emerging out there."