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Alaska volcano blasts ash 9 miles high

A volcano erupted Saturday with little warning on a remote island in Alaska, sending residents of a nearby ranch fleeing from falling ash and volcanic rock. The Okmok Caldera erupted late Saturday morning, just hours after seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Center began detecting a series of small tremors.

Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen

Yellowstone National Park is rising. Its central region, called the Yellowstone caldera, has been moving upward since mid-2004 at a rate of up to three inches (seven centimeters) a year more than three times faster than has ever been measured.

Massive underwater volcano discovered off Sicily

The volcanic structure, which incorporates peaks previously thought to be separate volcanoes, is at least 1,300 feet high -- taller than the Eiffel Tower. The base of the structure is 18.6 miles long and 15.5 miles wide, spanning an area larger than the U.S. capital and making it Italy's largest underwater volcano.

Mount Augustine Volcano in Alaska erupts

15-month eruption still producing lava at astonishing rate

The day I went it was completely fogged in.

Vanuatu Volcano Bursts Into Life

Cool steam vent pic.