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Title: Oil terminal a concern as Alaska volcano rumbles (AP)
Post by: riky on March 25, 2009, 03:01:37 AM
Oil terminal a concern as Alaska volcano rumbles
    (AP)

 



<p><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090324/capt.75082f1b39c74d788ed7d6bbd85c85f1.alaska_volcano_ak503.jpg?x=130&y=93&q=85&sig=DYIZ9x0m3Oeay7r5cYebHQ--" align="left" height="93" width="130" alt="This photo released by the Alaska Volcano Observatory / U.S. Geological Survey shows a webcam image of Mount Redoubt at 8:43p.m.Alaska Daylight Time Monday March 23, 2009 near  Kenai, Alaska. The volcano has been erutping staring Sunday night March 22, 2009, sending an ash cloud an estimated 50,000 feet into the air. The Ash cloud is expected to reach the Susitna Valley including Talkeetna, and Willow about 90 miles north of Anchorage. (AP Photo/ Alaska Volcano Observatory / U.S. Geological Survey )" border="0" /> (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/us/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090325/ap_on_re_us/alaska_volcano)AP - An Alaska volcano continued to rumble Tuesday amid new concerns that eruptions and mud flows will damage a nearby oil terminal where about 6 million gallons of crude are stored. The 10,200-foot Mount Redoubt volcano, about 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, erupted Sunday night. Since then there have been five more explosions; the latest, on Monday night, shot an ash plume into the air that was 40,000 to 50,000 feet high.</p><br clear="all"/>


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