{"id":10570,"date":"2015-10-16T21:13:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T04:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/alaska-volcano-observatory-repairs-seismic-monitors\/"},"modified":"2015-10-16T21:13:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T04:13:08","slug":"alaska-volcano-observatory-repairs-seismic-monitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/alaska-volcano-observatory-repairs-seismic-monitors\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Volcano Observatory repairs seismic monitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014<\/strong> Alaska Volcano Observatory scientists have repaired several seismic monitoring stations at active volcanoes throughout southwest Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>A lack of funding and delayed maintenance caused several of the stations to malfunction over the years, The Alaska Public Radio Network reported. The scientists began making repairs on the seismic monitoring equipment this summer with the help of funding from the U.S. Geological Survey\u2019s Volcano Hazards Program.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 176 of the observatory\u2019s 216 seismic stations in southwest Alaska are back in working order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to visit, importantly, Aniakchak Volcano on the Alaska Peninsula, restored some ground-based monitoring at the volcano there,\u201d Janet Schaefer, with the Alaska Volcano Observatory State Geological Survey, said. \u201cAnd we also did seismic repairs at Gareloi, Tanaga and Westdahl Volcanoes &#8211; those are in the Aleutian Islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schaefer said AVO was also able to fix stations at Shishaldin Volcano, which has recently been active. The goal is to get more stations up and running, she said.<\/p>\n<p>A volcanic eruption is often preceded by hours, or even moths, of seismic activity. As more stations get fixed, AVO will be able to \u201cdetect those very small, small magnitude earthquakes that indicate fluid movement, either from an active hydrothermal system, or gas, or magma beneath the surface,\u201d Schaefer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 Alaska Volcano Observatory scientists have repaired several seismic monitoring stations at active volcanoes throughout southwest Alaska. A lack of funding and delayed maintenance caused several of the stations to malfunction over the years, The Alaska Public Radio Network reported. The scientists began making repairs on the seismic monitoring equipment this summer with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10570"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}