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Tanaga reported activity

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Event Name : Tanaga 1763

This is a questionable event.

Start: 1763 Observed
Stop: 1770 Observed

Active; type of activity not specified: BibCard BibCard
"Smoke": BibCard
Eruption Type:Other
Duration: 7 years BibCard

Description: From Miller and others (1998):"Few details are available concerning historical activity of Tanaga Volcano, and some or all of the events attributed to it may have involved adjacent cones in the northwest part of the island (Coats, 1950)."

Grewingk (1850, translated 2003 by Fritz Jaensch) reports: "1763-1770 constantly active (according to promyshlenniks)."

From Sapper (1917): "Tanaga smoking in 1763-1770."

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