Augustine Volcano

Mount Augustine here on an island off the Alaskan mainland hasn't had any activity in 20 years. There's a good AP article "Volcano Eruptions Have Alaskans On Alert, Airports, Schools Close" about it at http://www.thebostonchannel.com/weather/6085693/detail.html if ya care to know how the Alaskans are dealing with it. In the past 24 hours, including today already there've been many small magnitude (between 1 to 5) earthquakes in that zone n in the Pacific off CA too.
Here's a world view showing the north pole in relation to this action.

I don't remember a time in my life when the planet and weather didn't concern me. I always did well in Biological n Zoological studies, Earth n Ocean sciences, n Astronomy during High School n University years.
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Back in the '70s, I had an arguement in front of my class with the Junior Biology teacher, Sister Cathleen. It was rare anyone would ever dare express a dissenting opinion from a nun's teachings n thought of as being disrespectful... We'd been learning about current events on excavations just discovered in PomPei, where an entire town had been preserved in lava deposits in the middle of their regular daily activities. She claimed that there hadn't been any active volcanoes except for Kiloweha in Hawaii for over the past 50 years, n none of us would probably ever need to worry about any violent eruptions in our life-times.
I raised my hand n argued that we would, according to what I'd learned about moving tectonic plates, hot-spots, n how eruptions occur, n on my gut instinct. She then screamed at me that I was incorrect, n there was no need of us ever being concerned about it! I shut up n didn't speak out in her class again. I always knew she was very wrong, n shouldn't be teaching Science with such a closed mind. (I only went to the State Science Fair twice, the only student in the school until that date to ever go).
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I've often wondered how many of the old classmates remembered that arguement when Mount St. Helens blew her lid, and took so many unprepared n complacent people, towns, homes, forest, n wildlife so suddenly. No one can afford an attitude of complacency about the state of the planet Earth again. It's a choice we make to be prepared for it, n to re-evaluate situations based on new data, to form a plan of action, n to do your best not to get caught unprepared.