On the Alaska side of the border, the Federal Aviation Administration reported no diverted flights due specifically to the ash. The U.S. Geological Survey's Alaska Volcano Observatory expected no ash fall in Alaska.
"The latest (report) has the plume out over the Bering Sea, out over the western Aleutian islands," said Kristi Wallace, a volcanologist with the observatory. "I just spoke with somebody out in Adak, and there isn't any ash fall."
Jen Burke, a meteorologist with the Alaska Aviation Weather Unit, said ash from the eruption of Shiveluch and Klyuchevskaya Sopka were moving across the Bering Sea at 25,000 feet. That could put it in the path of planes flying between Asia and North America.
"Right now it's not a difficult area to avoid because it's north of the Aleutian Islands," Burke said. "Planes could fly south of the Aleutian Islands and be perfectly safe."
The Anchorage Daily News contributed to this report.
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