Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...

Alaska, largely unspoiled wilderness, looks like something out of The Lord of the Rings.

For the last 10 months, a volcano in Alaska has been brewing for an eruption, and now it's closer than ever. Here's what the ...

The Alaska Volcano Observatory is closely monitoring Mount Spurr, which is located about 75 miles west of Anchorage. “AVO ...

Mount Spurr in Alaska – rising some 3,370 meters or 11,070 feet above sea level  – could be about to erupt, with the number ...

Mount Spurr, a volcano near Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, is showing strong signs that it could erupt based on ...

A volcano near Alaska's most populous city could be on the brink of eruption after showing signs of unrest over the past 10 ...

The last time it erupted was in 1992, and before that, 1953. Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory have reported ...

Researchers with the Alaska Volcano Observatory — which monitors the state's dynamic volcanoes — recently flew over Mount Spurr, a steep-sided volcano that has shown signs of unrest as quakes ...

"It's about a 50/50 chance right now," said Matt Haney, the scientist in charge of the Alaska Volcano Observatory in Anchorage. "So it's equally likely it will or will not progress to an eruption." ...