The Shishaldin Volcano is currently listed at a Code Orange alert level.
Activity from one of Alaska’s 80 volcanoes triggered aviation warnings after it began to spew ash and lava over the weekend.
The Shishaldin Volcano sits near an Aleutian village on an archipelago in southwest Alaska about 700 miles west of Anchorage. It began to resume activity early Saturday morning with visible lava flows and ash shot thousands of feet into the air, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
At some points, the ash reached about 28,000 feet, officials said. Trace amounts of the ash landed on False Pass, about 23 miles east of the volcano, the Anchorage Daily News reported.
#Shishaldin in eruption, Jan 18, 2020. A plume extends from the summit and from where a lava flow is interacting with a glacier. Photo courtesy of Woodsen Saunders. pic.twitter.com/8TemXX9cec
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#Shishaldin in eruption, evening of Jan 18, 2020, as viewed from King Cove. Photos courtesy of Savannah Yatchmeneff. pic.twitter.com/ZPI3hLWMQs
— Alaska AVO (@alaska_avo) January 19, 2020
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