Important Takeaways:

• Scientists have warned that a massive volcano in Alaska has a 50-50 chance of erupting in the near future.
• The 11,000-foot-tall Mount Spurr sits 77 miles from Anchorage— the state’s largest city which is home to nearly 300,000 people.
• Over the last 10 months, it has been experiencing an unusually high amount of small earthquakes.
• Since the seismic activity first began in April 2024, the rate of earthquakes has increased from an average of 30 per week to an average of 125 per week, ramping up in early October.
• Experts at the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) believe this seismic activity is being driven by new magma churning beneath the volcano, which could be a sign that it is getting ready to erupt.
• If Mount Spurr does erupt, it could produce explosive plumes of ash, destructive mudslides called lahars and avalanches of hot gas, ash and rock called pyroclastic flows, which would race down the volcano’s side at over 200 mph.
• Fortunately, there are not any communities within the potential path of pyroclastic flows or lahars from Mount Spurr.

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