Talk:Novarupta

message: Vital information on this article about it's formation and height were not on there so I just added them in. - (Erebus555 16:38, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info 

message: The article says: Only one eruption in historic times, Greece's Santorini in about 1500 B.C., displaced more volcanic matter than Novarupta.
I highly doubt that claim is factual. What about Tambora? Some numbers to back up the claim would be nice. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.107.0.77 (talk • contribs) 20:56, April 17, 2005  (UTC)
Another issue with claims:
The article claims that "The eruption is said to have had an effect on the level of the Nile River." However the cited reference nowhere says this. The cited reference is about eruptions affecting the rainfall in the Nile valley in ancient times, and doesn't mention Novarupta at all.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.243.179.223 (talk) 23:54, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valid claims? Numbers needed. 

message: I beleive that the article (stub) 1912 Novarupta eruption is (will) be redundant with Novarupta and as such the content from 1912 Novarupta eruption should be merged into this article and the stub removed.  --Burntnickel 11:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Merger 

message: The Mt. Pinatubo article says it is the largest eruption of the 20th century; both can't be right!R Young {yakłtalk} 06:21, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to "http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/pinatubo.html" Mt. Pinatubo is number 3 at 5 cubic km and Novarupta ejected 21 cubic km "http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Alaska/description_1912_eruption_novarupta.html". --Burntnickel 13:40, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Does anyone have any references for any of these?  There seem to be a lot of conflicting claims.  (VolcanoWorld claims 30 cubic km!) For what its worth, the Novarupta vent and Mt. Katmai are about six miles apart. There seems to be confusion over the assosication of the names with the eruption and whether to consider Novarupta a separate volcano or just a separate vent of Mt. Karami. (The Smithsonian lists them as separate volcanos "http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1102-18-", and claims Novarupta as the largest of the 20th century). --Burntnickel 15:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: All of my books refer to the large 1912 Katmai eruption, as do historical newspaper references, and none of them mention Novarupta.Eregli bob (talk) 16:53, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Novarupta vs. Mt. Pinatubo

message: It would be nice if this article was expanded.  It surprised me when I saw that something rather significant had such a short article.  Thanks, Meldshal42Hit meWhat I've Done 19:25, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Aside from dogs, I have take a stab at cleaning up the article and leaving it in better shape to be expanded. --Burntnickel (talk) 23:08, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bringing to B 

message: According to the article:"located on the Alaska Peninsula in the Katmai..." what the heck is "the Katmai"?? Katmai National Park? How about "Located on the Alaska Penninsula." Senor Cuete (talk) 23:35, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed to Katmai National Park and Preserve, which is where the link went anyway. -- Spireguy (talk) 02:37, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the Katmai??

message: According to the article: "the 60 hour long eruption expelled 13 to 15 cubic kilometers (3.1 to 3.6 cu mi) of magma, 30 times as much as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.[3][4][5] The erupted magma resulted in more than 17 cubic kilometers (4.1 cu mi) of air fall and approximately 11 cubic kilometers (2.6 cu mi) of ash-flow tuff[6]". So 4.1 cubic miles of air fall and 2.6 cubic miles of adds up to only 3.1 to 3.6 cubic miles? How about 17 cubic kilometers of air fall and 11 cubic kilometers of of ash flows adding up to 13 to 15 cubic kilometers? Senor Cuete (talk) 23:42, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Arithmetic 

message: It is a vent of Katmai volcano. It is at Katmai where the caldera is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.248.183.90 (talk) 15:47, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novarupta is not an individual volcano. 

message: Why is the Russian name given?  What is the Russian connection?—208.54.37.191 (talk) 03:49, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian name? 

message: This article says that the Novarupta vent is 2.5 miles from Mount Katmai but the Katmai article says that it's 6 miles from Katmai. So, which is it? Senor Cuete (talk) 00:11, 21 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distance to Mount Katmai? 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I suggest including more information on the human impact of the eruption.  As stated already in the article there was (remarkably) no recorded loss of human life (although lots of wildlife perished).  A nice review of sources on this subject is provided in an article by Jeanne Schaaf cited in the following suggested addition, which I suggest might follow the sentence:
"Despite the magnitude of the eruption, no deaths directly resulted."  
Eye witness accounts from people located downwind in the path of a thick ash cloud describe the gradual lowering of visibility to next to nothing.   Ash threatened to contaminate drinking water and decimate food resources, but the native Alaskans were aided in their survival by traditional knowledge passed down through generations from previous eruptions.  However the native villages experiencing the heaviest ash falls were abandoned and the inhabitants relocated.
--Dragonfly360 (talk) 05:06, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human impact 

message: The formation of a caldera at Katmai during the eruption of Novarupta implies that the latter is a vent of the former, yet this article, the one about Katmai, and the relevant pages at the GVP website seem to treat the volcanoes as separate http://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=312180  https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=312170 ; the latter website giving them separate pages, instead of placing them in a single page.  Contrast this with the Vestmannaeyjar volcanic system in Iceland, which includes the (sub-)volcanoes Eldfell and Surtsey; the GVP put the latter two in its page for the whole system (Vestmannaeyjar), as opposed to giving them separate pages.  The same is true for the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, in Mexico, and its well-known (sub-)volcano Parícutin and the less well-known Jorullo (among thousands of others in this large field).  If there is a reason for regarding Novarupta and Katmai as individual volcanoes, it should be stated in this article and the one for Katmai. ZFT (talk) 20:56, 21 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to Katmai