What is Mount Spurr? Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years. It has two main vents and is 11,070 feet (3,374 meters) tall.

Alaska residents are again being urged to brace themselves for a possible eruption of Mount Spurr. Following up on last week's warning, the Alaska Volcano Observatory reiterated in a series of ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory raised the alert level to advisory status for Tanaga Volcano on Tuesday following a series of earthquakes. "Earthquake activity beneath Tanaga Volcano began to ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the more than 11,000-foot-tall, snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts could include: Damage to aircraft from ash, especially since 60,000 planes fly ...

It is an 11,070-foot tall, ice- and snow-covered volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage. Mount Spurr is one of 53 volcanoes in Alaska that have been active within the last 250 years.

The second explosion, shown here, lasted 3 hours and 40 minutes and p...Read More --- Read More Photograph by R.G. McGimsey, Alaska Volcano Observatory, U.S. Geological Survey ...

Power told the Associated Press that instead of the red rivers of lava many people associate with a volcano eruption, there would likely be more viscous, slow-moving lava similar to the kind seen ...

The Iliamna volcano, located near the Cook Inlet in southern Alaska, last erupted in 1867, but would still rumble every few years due to avalanches large enough to register on nearby seismic and ...

The Tanaga Volcano sits beneath clouds near Adak, Alaska, on May 23, 2021. A swarm of earthquakes occurring over the past few weeks has intensified at a remote Alaska volcano dormant for over a ...

The unrest at Mount Spurr, an 11,000-foot volcano just 80 miles west of Anchorage, suggests an eruption is likely to occur in the next few weeks or months, the Alaska Volcano Observatory said in a ...