An ongoing eruption of a remote volcano in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands produced an ash cloud so large Tuesday that warnings were sent to pilots about potentially dangerous conditions.
A web camera image from the U.S. Geological Survey shows a low-level ash plume from Shishaldin Volcano on Tuesday, July 18, 2023.
The volcano is about 700 miles southwest of Anchorage and sits near the middle of Unimak Island. The island’s 65 or so residents live about 25 miles northeast of the volcano, in the community of False Pass.. A U.S. Coast Guard overflight confirmed lava erupted the same day within the summit crater. The volcano, one of the most active in the Aleutian arc, saw increased lava eruptions just after midnight Tuesday, with no significant ash emissions, the observatory said. That changed hours later with the ash cloud. The National Weather Service issued an advisory due to the drifting ash cloud.
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