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Latest Redoubt Eruption Sends Ash 11 Miles Up

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(Newser) – The fifth and largest eruption of Alaska’s Mount Redoubt occurred this morning, sending a plume of ash 60,000 feet above sea level, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The ash is spreading north into inhabited areas, but winds moving toward Anchorage are too high to dump ash there. “That’s going to stay there,” an expert said. While the airport there is still open, Alaska Airlines has canceled 19 flights.

Mount Redoubt erupting in 1990, the last time it was active.
Mount Redoubt erupting in 1990, the last time it was active.   (AP Photo)
A more passive Mount Redoubt, in 2004.
A more passive Mount Redoubt, in 2004.   (AP Photo)
An eruption of Mount Redoubt.
An eruption of Mount Redoubt.   (AP Photo)
John Power, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory shows a satellite image of the eruption of Mount Redoubt.
John Power, a geophysicist with the US Geological Survey Alaska Volcano Observatory shows a satellite image of the eruption of Mount Redoubt.   (AP Photo)
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