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Archive Home > 2009 > March > 24 > Alaska volcano erupts

Alaska volcano erupts

Five eruptions from Mount Redoubt send ash 9 miles into air

By Mary Pemberton / The Bulletin
March 24, 2009

WILLOW, Alaska — Alaska’s Mount Redoubt volcano erupted five times overnight, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles into the air in the volcano’s first emissions in nearly 20 years.

Residents in the state’s largest city were spared from falling ash,....

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