Mount Spurr's recent elevation to advisory status has Southcentral Alaska businesses shifting into preparation mode.

A volcano near Alaska's largest city is likely to erupt soon. Scientists say Mount Spurr — about 80 miles from Anchorage — is becoming more seismically active, spewing large amounts of ...

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 robot, which has been lowered into the active crater which constantly spews rocks and sulphurous gases to send back scientific data from inside the volcano Mount Spurr is one of a string of ...

Things are getting a bit spicy at Mount Spurr in Alaska, where geologists have been reporting an increase in seismic activity for almost a year. Based on the latest developments, officials are now ...

If I remember correctly, last time Mount Spurr blew it was winter, and there was nice, white snow on the ground. The eruption turned Anchorage completely gray, but that summer the minerals in the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (NBC) -- Scientists are urging people who live in south-central Alaska to begin preparing for a possible eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said ...

They announced in mid-March that the chances had gone up for Mount Spurr to blow "within the next few weeks or months." So how do they know that? And what should Southcentral Alaska residents do ...

Mount Spurr, just to the west of the city of Anchorage, is rumbling. The Alaska Volcano Observatory has been monitoring the earthquakes, gas emissions and visible changes at Spurr and think we might ...

The most recent eruptions at Mount Spurr One of 53 volcanos located in the state of Alaska, the most recent eruptions to have occurred on Mount Spurr took place in 1953 and 1992.

Gas emissions, earthquakes and ground deformations at Mount Spurr, an Alaskan volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage, indicate that it is “progressing toward an eruption,” scientists said ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory notes “elevated earthquake activity and ground deformation” at Mount Spurr, about 75 miles west of Anchorage. (Dreamstime/TNS) ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The ...