I became really interested in volcanoes, especially those more powerful than Mt. St. Helens 1980, early on during Covid - not in spite of the pandemic but because of it. (While superficially pandemics and eruptions are completely different, they're strikingly similar when it comes to disrupting global supply chains as well as extremely widespread effects.) I've done enough research to say that the dormant Edgecumbe and Churchill volcanoes in the Alaska panhandle are others to watch out for in terms of a very large-scale eruption, even though they're in underpopulated areas. This is because should either of them blow up really really big, ash clouds can travel quite far and/or can interfere with air travel, not to mention cool the climate of much of the world for at least 1-2 years to come.
The Alaska panhandle is basically just a series of volcanoes that goes for a thousand miles or so. It's quite incredible! And I'm not surprised to find out there are others out there that can wreak havoc on flight patterns.
I became really interested in volcanoes, especially those more powerful than Mt. St. Helens 1980, early on during Covid - not in spite of the pandemic but because of it. (While superficially pandemics and eruptions are completely different, they're strikingly similar when it comes to disrupting global supply chains as well as extremely widespread effects.) I've done enough research to say that the dormant Edgecumbe and Churchill volcanoes in the Alaska panhandle are others to watch out for in terms of a very large-scale eruption, even though they're in underpopulated areas. This is because should either of them blow up really really big, ash clouds can travel quite far and/or can interfere with air travel, not to mention cool the climate of much of the world for at least 1-2 years to come.
The Alaska panhandle is basically just a series of volcanoes that goes for a thousand miles or so. It's quite incredible! And I'm not surprised to find out there are others out there that can wreak havoc on flight patterns.