Mount Redoubt: Thar She Blows! (Eruptions Started Last Sunday)

Mount Redoubt, in Alaska, erupted yesterday.

It's about a hundred miles from Anchorage, so you'd think there wouldn't be much of a problem. With this volcano, a hundred miles is really close.

• "ALASKA VOLCANO PICTURES: Redoubt Erupts"
  National Geographic (March 23, 2009)
• "Alaska volcano erupts 15km into sky"
  RTÉ News (March 23, 2009)
• "Volcanic ash snarls air traffic in Alaska"
  Los Angeles Times (March 23, 2009)
• "Alaskans don masks as once-sleepy volcano spews ash"
  CNN (March 23, 2009)

Related posts:

• "Volcanoes, a Governor, Science, and the Next Yellowstone Caldera Blowout"
  (February 25, 2009)
  • Most of the post is about volcanoes in North America. Including the whopper under Yellowstone: "Mt. St. Helens and Pompeii: It Could Have Been a Lot Worse "
• "Mount Redoubt Steaming, Anchorage Waiting, Webcams Watching"
  (February 1, 2009)