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The eruption cloud of
Mount Redoubt
, an
active
stratovolcano
found in the
Chigmit Mountains
of the
U.S. state
of
Alaska
, seen here from the
Kenai Peninsula
four months after it began erupting on December 14, 1989. This eruption was the first ever to be successfully
predicted
through the observation of long-period
seismic
events.
Photo credit: R. Clucas,
USGS
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