Kicker - A delayed volcanic reaction

NICK EICHER, HOST: Officials in Anchorage issued a warning on Wednesday that volcanic ash could rain down on Alaska’s Kodiak Island—about 250 miles to the southwest.

The ash is from the Novarupta volcano on the Alaskan Peninsula. The actual eruption was quite a number of years ago, but it was a big one and a long one—three days—with ash reaching as high as 100,000 feet.

And officials say strong winds in the vicinity of Katmai National Park kicked up the loose volcanic ash, sending it toward Kodiak Island.

Now, I said the eruption known as Novarupta was years ago. And that’s true, but quite an understatement: the eruption happened in the year 1912!

Talk about a delayed reaction—something that happened before the transcontinental telephone line—now has its own internet site.

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