Volcano Experts Say Alaska’s Mount Spurr is About to Erupt

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According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the rock formation is releasing more volcanic gas emissions. All as seismic activity in the surrounding area continues and ground deformations continue to grow.

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00:00Mount Spur in Alaska is heating up, literally.

00:07According to the Alaska Volcano Observatory, the rock formation is releasing more volcanic gas emissions.

00:12All this seismic activity in the surrounding area continues, and ground deformations grow.

00:17With experts saying it's looking more and more likely that Mount Spur is about to erupt.

00:22The Volcano Observatory says that magma has now begun to fill up a chamber underneath the crust below the mountain, a key eruption indicator.

00:29They also have gas data which points to a new vent opening inside Crater Peak.

00:33So what kind of eruption can we expect?

00:35Experts say it will likely mirror those of the 1953 and 1992 eruptions.

00:40Matthew Haney, lead scientist at the Alaska Volcano Observatory, said,

00:44Those were explosive eruptions, and that each lasted a few hours,

00:47and produced ash clouds that were carried downwind for hundreds of miles and minor ashfall on south-central Alaska communities.

00:54Mount Spur resides just 78 miles from Anchorage, Alaska's largest city.

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