{"id":57217,"date":"2020-01-03T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/volcano-briefly-erupts-on-alaska-island-sends-up-ash-cloud\/"},"modified":"2020-01-03T12:25:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T21:25:00","slug":"volcano-briefly-erupts-on-alaska-island-sends-up-ash-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/volcano-briefly-erupts-on-alaska-island-sends-up-ash-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcano briefly erupts on Alaska island, sends up ash cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE &mdash;<\/strong> A volcano in Alaska&rsquo;s Aleutian Islands erupted Friday and sent up an ash cloud, prompting a warning for planes.<\/p>\n<p>Shishaldin Volcano shot ash to more than 20,000 feet and possibly 24,000 feet, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano is 679 miles southwest of Anchorage near the center of Unimak Island, the largest in the Aleutians and home to False Pass, a village of 40 people on the island&rsquo;s east side.<\/p>\n<p>David Fee, coordinating scientist for the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, said the ash cloud was not a threat to the village.<\/p>\n<p>The cloud drifted southeast over the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The volcano is a symmetrical cone that is 10 miles in diameter at its base. It rises to 9,373 feet and is the highest peak in the Aleutians.<\/p>\n<p>Several pilots and satellite imagery saw the cloud after the eruption at 11:38 a.m., the observatory said.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service issued an ash cloud warning for aircraft to 24,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Shishaldin is at a heightened level of seismic unrest, and explosions could occur with little warning, the observatory said. The volcano is monitored with seismic and infrasound sensors, satellite data, a web camera and and distant infrasound and lightning networks.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is an Associated Press report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not a threat to nearby village. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":57218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-57217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57217"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=57217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}