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Alaska's Augustine

Volcano erupts four times

Friday,

January 13, 2006; Posted: 10:10

p.m. EST (03:10 GMT)

 

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A

volcano on an uninhabited island 180 miles from Anchorage erupted four times

Friday, sending plumes of ash more than six miles into the sky.

Airplanes were warned to keep at least five miles away from

4,134-foot Augustine Volcano.

The National Weather Service warned about 16,000 residents

of Kenai Peninsula and Kodiak Island to the south -- an area that includes the city of Kodiak -- about the ash cloud.

But the Alaska Volcano Observatory said it did not expect a heavy accumulation

of ash.

Some schools on the Kenai

Peninsula closed, affecting about

2,500 students.

Anchorage was in

no danger.

Ash can pose a health risk -- especially for people with

respiratory problems -- and can damage the engines of vehicles on the ground

and aircraft that fly through the plumes.

The eruptions occurred around 4 a.m., 9 a.m., 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Alaska time, and followed two bursts from the

volcano on Wednesday. Those earlier eruptions were the volcano's first in 20 years.

Similar short-lived explosive activity is expected to

continue over the next several days or weeks, observatory spokeswoman Jennifer

Adleman said, and additional eruptions could occur with little or no warning.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/01/13/alaska.volcano.ap/index.html

 

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