Alaska's largest city closely watching Mount Spurr as unrest continues at volcano

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Seismic enactment persists astatine Mount Spurr, which scientists said could mean the Alaska volcano is poised for a imaginable eruption. 

Mount Spurr is astatine an advisory alert level, with a yellowish colour codification signaling unrest. The volcano began showing signs of unrest successful October. 

According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, 55 earthquakes were recorded astatine Mount Spurr past week.  

On Monday, the AVO said occasional tiny earthquakes had been reported nether the volcano's surface, and nary steam was seen coming from the volcano connected webcams oregon during wide viewing.  In an update past week, the AVO said crushed deformation astir the volcano had paused implicit the past fewer weeks. 

This representation looks southbound toward Mount Spurr acme (foreground), taken during an overflight connected March 17, 2025.

(Dane Ketner/Alaska Volcano Observatory / FOX Weather)

This is akin to erstwhile enactment astatine the mountain, according to the AVO, but determination is variability successful the caller earthquakes that person been reported.

The AVO said an eruption astatine Mount Spurr is imaginable successful the coming weeks oregon months, but an nonstop timeframe is unknown. 

The volcano past erupted successful 1992. 

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Anchorage keeps adjacent oculus connected Spurr

The volcano is astir 80 miles from Alaska's largest city, Anchorage. 

In the lawsuit of an eruption, ash could autumn implicit Anchorage, disrupting question and raising aerial prime concerns. 

The Anchorage Office of Emergency Management posted connected Facebook to punctual residents that planned summertime question could beryllium disrupted successful the lawsuit of an eruption, and to person an exigency preparedness kit acceptable for their vehicles. 

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In precocious March, the Anchorage Emergency Operations Center raised its alert status to Level 2 owed to the unrest astatine Mount Spurr. This indicates that a concern requiring accrued nationalist accusation has developed and could necessitate a multi-agency response. 

AVO said they program a formation implicit Mount Spurr arsenic soon arsenic upwind conditions allow.