VOLCANO PICTURES

VOLCANO PICTURES

• ALASKA VOLCANO PICTURES: Redoubt Erupts

• Plumes of steam rise from a vent in the summit crater of Redoubt Volcano--a glacier-covered peak 110 miles (177 kilometers) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska--on March 21, a day before the volcano began a series of powerful eruptions
• When the Alaska peak began erupting late on March 22, 2009, it sent plumes of smoke and ash about 9.5 miles (15 kilometers) into the sky. Nearby towns are seeing ashfall, and some flights out of Anchorage have been canceled.

• A few hundred degrees separates this pool of fiery orange magma in Italy’s Mount Etna from its hardened, gray crust. At nearly 11,000 feet (3,353 meters), Mount Etna is Europe’s highest active volcano.

• Cleveland Volcano releases a plume of ash that rises almost 20,000 feet (6,000 meters) above the North Pacific Ocean in this aerial photograph. Cleveland Volcano, located in the Aleutian Islands southwest of Alaska, failed to produce an eruption and the plume of ash detached from the volcano two hours after it had formed.

• Sparked by avalanches of hot debris rushing down the Redoubt Volcano's northern flank, a mushroom cloud rises from the Alaska peak on April 21, 1990. A smaller, white plume of steam pours from the volcano's summit crater