Safety hazards for those near the eruption include high levels of volcanic gas, primarily water vapor, carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. The active volcano has erupted more than dozen times ...
Numerous small, shallow earthquakes continue to rumble under Alaska's Mount Spurr, prompting fears of an imminent eruption.
Scientists warn that the Alaska volcano Mount Spurr is likely to erupt soon, showering ash on Anchorage and potentially ...
Stephanie Coral Browitt escaped death following the 2019 White Island eruption. After recovering for years from third-degree burns that covered 70 percent of her body and eight finger amputations, she ...
Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...
The Alaska Volcano Observatory says that if the more than 11,000-foot-tall, snowcapped volcano erupts, the impacts ... closed airports, affected water supplies and rained up to a quarter-inch ...
Here’s what residents should know to protect their children, pets, homes and vehicles from the ash that scientists say is ...
Minerals from the volcano known as silicates get suspended in air by an eruption, and they’re sharp ... Conway suggested people keep a cache of food, water and any necessary medication at ...
Before then, the volcano's most recent major eruptions were in 2016, 2014, 2007 and 2003. In the past, researchers also sighted ephemeral islands up to half a mile (1 km) wide being birthed by the ...
Met Office scientists found in a new landmark study that a critical process in the north Atlantic is partly influenced by ...
A volcanologist who captured video of the 1992 eruption of Mount Spurr from a plane recounts what he saw and what to expect ...