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Mount Cleveland

Cleveland

Stratovolcano · United States · 1730m

Mount Cleveland forms the western half of Chuginadak Island. This 24 July 1994 view from the west shows the summit region darkened by ashfall that may have originated from an eruption reported on 25 May. Dark lava flows from earlier eruptions can be seen on the flanks.
Mount Cleveland forms the western half of Chuginadak Island. This 24 July 1994 view from the west shows the summit region darkened by ashfall that may have originated from an eruption reported on 25 May. Dark lava flows from earlier eruptions can be seen on the flanks. · Photo: Photo by Michelle Harbin, 1994 (courtesy of Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Stratovolcano
Country
United States
Region
North America Volcanic Regions / 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

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 0Geological estimate
    1989-10-25 – Ongoing
  18. 1987VEI 3Observed
    1987-06-19 – 1987-08-28
  19. 1986VEI 2Observed
    1986-04-28 – 1986-05-27
  20. 1985VEI 1Geological estimate
    1985-12-10 – Ongoing
  21. 1984VEI 1Observed
    1984-07-12 – 1984-07-12
  22. 1975VEI ?Geological estimate
    1975-09-16 – Ongoing
  23. 1953VEI ?Geological estimate
    1953-06-25 – Ongoing
  24. 1951VEI ?Geological estimate
    1951-11-01 – 1951-12-16
  25. 1944VEI 3Observed
    1944-06-10 – 1944-06-12
  26. 1938VEI ?Observed
    1938 – Ongoing
  27. 1932VEI ?Observed
    1932-01-01 – Ongoing
  28. 1929VEI ?Geological estimate
    1929-03 – Ongoing
  29. 1897VEI ?Observed
    1897 – Ongoing
  30. 1893VEI ?Observed
    1893 – Ongoing

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