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Mount Cleveland

Cleveland

Type
Stratovolcano
Elevation
1730m
Last eruption
2020
Mount Cleveland
Photo: M. L. Harbin of the University of Alaska Fairbanks in a joint program, the Alaska Volcano Observatory, with the USGS[1] · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
United States
Region
North America / Aleutian Ridge Volcanic Arc
Elevation
1730m
Coordinates
52.825, -169.944
Last eruption
2020
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Intermediate crust (15-25 km)
Landform
Composite
Major rock type
Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary

The symmetrical Mount Cleveland stratovolcano is situated at the western end of the uninhabited Chuginadak Island. It lies SE across Carlisle Pass strait from Carlisle volcano and NE across Chuginadak Pass strait from Herbert volcano. Joined to the rest of Chuginadak Island by a low isthmus, The native name, Chuginadak, refers to the Aleut goddess of fire, who was thought to reside on the volcano. Numerous large lava flows descend the steep-sided flanks. It is possible that some 18th-to-19th century eruptions attributed to Carlisle should be ascribed to Cleveland (Miller et al., 1998). In 1944 it produced the only known fatality from an Aleutian eruption.

From Wikipedia

Mount Cleveland is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano on the western end of Chuginadak Island, which is part of the Islands of Four Mountains just west of Umnak Island in the Fox Islands of the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Mount Cleveland is 5,675 ft (1,730 m) high, and one of the most active of the 75 or more volcanoes in the larger Aleutian Arc. Aleutian natives named the island after their fire goddess, Chuginadak, who they believed inhabited the volcano. In 1894 a team from the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey visited the island and gave Mount Cleveland its current name, after then-president Grover Cleveland.

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Eruption history

30 recordedGlossary
Summary (VEI over time)
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1893~1906 · 2 eruptions · max VEI ?1918~1931 · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?1931~1944 · 2 eruptions · max VEI ?1944~1957 · 3 eruptions · max VEI 31969~1982 · 1 eruptions · max VEI ?1982~1995 · 7 eruptions · max VEI 31995~2007 · 5 eruptions · max VEI 32007~2020 · 9 eruptions · max VEI 318931918195719822007

Detailed timeline

  1. 2020VEI 3Observed
    2020-06-01 – 2020-06-01
  2. 2019VEI ?Observed
    2019-11-07 – 2019-12-07
  3. 2016VEI 2Observed
    2016-04-16 – 2019-01-20
    Summit crater
  4. 2011VEI 2Observed
    2011-07-19 – 2015-08-18
    Summit crater
  5. 2010VEI 2Observed
    2010-05-30 – 2010-06-02
    Summit crater
  6. 2010VEI 2Observed
    2010-09-11 – 2010-09-12
  7. 2009VEI 2Observed
    2009-01-02 – 2009-01-21
  8. 2009VEI 2Observed
    2009-06-25 – 2009-06-25
  9. 2009VEI 2Observed
    2009-10-02 – 2009-12-12
  10. 2007VEI 2Observed
    2007-06-17 – 2008-08-12
  11. 2006VEI 3Observed
    2006-02-06 – 2006-10-28
  12. 2005VEI 2Observed
    2005-03-13 – 2005-11-27
  13. 2001VEI 3Observed
    2001-02-02 – 2001-04-15
  14. 1997VEI 2Observed
    1997-05-05 – 1997-05-05
  15. 1994VEI 3Observed
    1994-05-25 – 1994-05-25
  16. 1994VEI 1Observed
    1994-10-20 – 1994-10-20
  17. 1989VEI 0Method not stated
    1989-10-25 – end unknown
  18. 1987VEI 3Observed
    1987-06-19 – 1987-08-28
  19. 1986VEI 2Observed
    1986-04-28 – 1986-05-27
  20. 1985VEI 1Method not stated
    1985-12-10 – end unknown
  21. 1984VEI 1Observed
    1984-07-12 – 1984-07-12
  22. 1975VEI ?Method not stated
    1975-09-16 – end unknown
  23. 1953VEI ?Method not stated
    1953-06-25 – end unknown
  24. 1951VEI ?Method not stated
    1951-11-01 – 1951-12-16
  25. 1944VEI 3Observed
    1944-06-10 – 1944-06-12
  26. 1938VEI ?Observed
    1938-07-02 – end unknown
  27. 1932VEI ?Observed
    1932-01-01 – end unknown
  28. 1929VEI ?Method not stated
    1929-03-16 – end unknown
  29. 1897VEI ?Observed
    1897-07-02 – end unknown
  30. 1893VEI ?Observed
    1893-07-02 – end unknown

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