Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Alaska Volcano

There are new tremors at Alaska's Mount Redoubt. The volcano is getting unstable. The volcano is ten thousand two hundred feet high. This volcano erupted six times on Sunday and Monday. Here's what a couple of volcanologist said. A volcanologist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said Tuesday that Redoubt was exhibiting activity that could indicate it is creating a formation called a lava dome. Volcanologist Peter Cervelli said such a formation can collapse, creating more ash plumes and mudflows. Mount Recoubt is around one hundred feet away from Anchorage. Alaska's Mount Redoubt's first couple of eruptions in nearly twenty years. A total of six were found between Sunday night and Monday night. Mount Redoubt sent a volcanic ash plume more than nine miles into the air and down into shops and places. The ash missed the state's largest city. The ash dusted a lot of the small cities. The National Weather Service had an ash advisory in effect until 5 a.m. Tuesday for the Susitna Valley. There were no reported injuries. The wind took ash away from Anchorage. The wind moved toward Willow and Talkeetna. Then the wind went near Mount McKinley and North America's largest mountain. The Alaska Volcano Observatory reports that the sixth eruption came at 7:41 p.m. Monday. The five earlier eruptions came late Sunday night into Monday morning.

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