While there's been volcanic activity in the Caribbean, Iceland, Italy, and tragically in Africa when the Nyiragongo volcano lake drained and sent a fissure eruption into the outskirts of Goma, Alaska's Aleutian Island chain is always capable of sudden surprises.
Such was the case on May 25th with the Great Sitkin volcano, which pretty much comprises all of Great Sitkin Island, located about 22 miles northeast of Adak (on the island of Adak), where a few people live and where there a couple of runways for airplanes to land on.
Aleutian volcano Great Sitkin briefly erupts, sending ash 15,000 feet high
I'm just slightly amused that there's a volcano named the Great Sitkin. Nice day for an eruption.
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