The Pavlof Volcano in southwest Alaska erupted Sunday afternoon
sending plumes of ash 3,700 feet high and 400 miles inland across Alaska
prompting the cancellation of dozens of òights.
In a new release late on Monday
night, the U.S. Geological Survey
said that the intensity of the
eruption had “declined
signiÒcantly.”
The Star reports:
Pavlof Volcano, one of Alaska’s
most active volcanoes, is 1005
kilometres southwest of
Anchorage on the Alaska
Peninsula, the Ònger of land that sticks out from mainland Alaska toward the
Aleutian Islands.
The volcano in the 8,261-foot (or 2518-metre) mountain erupted about 4 p.m.