The Alaskan volcano Mount Redoubt erupted last night with four large explosions, sending an plume of ash 50,000 feet into the air, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported. The volcano lies only 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, Alaska’s largest city, but geologists say that current wind patterns are likely to carry the ash cloud to the north. “It looks like (Anchorage) might dodge the bullet,” Alaska Volcano Observatory geophysicist Peter Cervelli said [Anchorage Daily News]. Mudflows are also possible on nearby rivers.
The 10,200-foot Mount Redoubt last erupted during a four-month period from 1989-90…. Alaska volcanos typically explode and shoot ash upward, sometimes to 50,000 feet, high into the jet stream. An eruption of Redoubt on Dec. 15, 1989, sent ash 150 miles away into the path of a KLM jet, stopping its engines. The jet dropped more than two miles before the crew was able to restart engines and land ...
