At some points, the ash reached about 28,000 feet, officials said.
The Shishaldin Volcano sits near an Aleutian village on an archipelago in southwest Alaska about 700 miles west of Anchorage. It began to resume activity early Saturday morning with visible lava flows and ash shot thousands of feet into the air, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.
A Brightness Temperature Difference AVHRR satellite image shows a 80.8 miles long ash plume from Shishaldin Volcano in Ala., Jan. 7, 2020. A Brightness Temperature Difference AVHRR satellite image shows a 80.8 miles long ash plume from Shishaldin Volcano in Ala., Jan. 7, 2020. Trace amounts of the ash landed on False Pass, about 23 miles east of the volcano, the
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