Hot new website enters volcano

ANCHORAGE - Want to peer into the steaming summit of an erupting volcano without risking death?

Anyone with an internet connection and a computer can do just that, thanks to about 30 cameras and other recording devices set up on Alaska's Augustine Volcano that are streaming information to a website hosted by the Alaska Volcano Observatory, a joint federal-state office.

The site available by clicking on the link below, has received over 253 million hits since the start of the year.

The volcano, on an island 280km southwest of Anchorage, has been active since January 11.

- REUTERS