1 day ago · Mount Spurr, about 75 miles west of Anchorage, has been experiencing hundreds of tiny earthquakes over the last 10 months. Experts say that means the volcano could be getting ready to erupt.

1 day ago · A swarm of more than 100 shallow earthquakes at Alaska's Mount Spurr that began Sunday night and ran to Monday morning suggest the volcano could be moving closer to an eruption. "It's about a 50/ ...

3 days ago · Mount Spurr erupted once in 1953 and three times in 1992, according to the observatory. Both years saw eruptions at the Crater Peak vent, located two miles south of the volcano’s summit.

Feb 6, 2025 · Volcanic unrest continues at Mount Spurr, an ice- and snow-covered volcano located on the west side of Cook Inlet approximately 75 miles (120 km) west of Anchorage. The most likely cause is new magma beneath the volcano. The duration (10 months) and nature of the unrest suggest that an eruption is possible. The most likely site of an eruption ...

Mount Spurr, the highest volcano of the Aleutian Arc, is a large stratocone constructed at the center of a roughly 5-kilometer-wide (3.1 mi) horseshoe-shaped caldera that is open to the south. The volcano lies 81 miles (130 km) west of Anchorage and northeast of Chakachamna Lake.

4 days ago · A volcano in southern Alaska is rumbling with seismic activity, which hints at the possibility that it might soon erupt.. Mount Spurr, an 11,070-foot-tall stratovolcano roughly 75 miles from ...

4 days ago · Mount Spurr erupted once in 1953 and three times in 1992, according to the observatory. Both years saw eruptions at the Crater Peak vent, located two miles south of the volcano’s summit.

Mount Spurr is a prominent member of the Cook Inlet volcanoes and is clearly visible from Anchorage on sunny days. The dramatic edifice is made up of several volcanic features.

Mount Spurr is the closest volcano to Anchorage, Alaska (130 km W) and just NE of Chakachamna Lake. The summit is a large lava dome at the center of a roughly 5-km-wide amphitheater open to the south formed by a late-Pleistocene or early Holocene debris avalanche and associated pyroclastic flows that destroyed an older edifice.

Dec 6, 2024 · Mount Spurr, located on the Volcanic Ring of Fire, is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years. An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska’s largest city this year has geologists paying attention.