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Δευτέρα 20 Μαΐου 2013

Palvof Volcano ash reaches Alaska city but stays under major threat level to airliners



ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) 
— Alaska's Pavlof Volcano sent ash and steam skyward Sunday but not enough to raise the aviation threat for international air carriers.
A satellite at 12:40 a.m. measured an ash cloud at 19,500 feet, just below the 20,000-foot threshold considered to be a major threat to trans-continental aircraft. The aviation warming level remained at code orange, a step below red, the highest of the four levels, said geologist Kristi Wallace of the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
Pavlof is an 8,262-foot volcano located 625 miles southwest of Anchorage on the Alaska Peninsula, the finger of land that sticks out from mainland Alaska toward the Aleutian Islands.
Residents of Sand Point, a city of nearly 1,000 on Popof Island about 55 miles east of the volcano, woke to find traces of ash on their vehicles.
"We have physical samples that are being sent to us," Wallace said. "I'm excited to see what those look like."
Jagged ash particles can plug filters of vehicles and damage engines but Wallace said the reports noted minimal ash.
"Both reports indicate film on their windshield, but they could see through it — gritty ash," she said.
Pavlof's latest eruption began May 13....[...]

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