ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - One of Alaska’s most active volcanoes, a towering ice-covered cone in the Aleutian Islands, shot a cloud of ash more than 8 kilometres high on Friday, triggering a warning to aviators and putting on a show that was captured in satellite imagery.
The ash burst from Shishaldin Volcano, about 1,080 kilometres southwest of Anchorage, was part of an on-and-off, mostly low-level series of eruptions that began in July with a stream of lava from the crater at the peak of the 2,869-metre mountain.