Mount Redoubt rumbles back to life, sending an ash plume more than 9 miles high into the air.
Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano, which had been capricious for two months, erupted Sunday night at 10:38 p.m., sending an ash cloud 50,000 feet above sea level.
The Alaska Volcano Observatory recorded four more large explosions during the night.
Tina Neal, a geologist with the US Geological Survey, said that "so far the major population centers in south-central alaska have been spared any kind of dusting of ash." (Read more here).
The Alaska Volcano Observatory staff also warned authorities at the drift river oil terminal -- on the western shore of Cook Inlet downriver from the volcano -- that mud flows and flooding from melting glaciers might be headed their way. Cook Inlet Pipe Line company, which operates the terminal, said early this morning that it had begun shutting the facility down. (Read more here).
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