Volcano near Alaska’s largest city may burst in the coming weeks or months: scientist


Encourage, Alaska – A volcanic disturbance is showing new signs of a volcanic disturbance near Alaska’s largest city, stating that the possibility of explosion in Mount Spur has increased in the next few weeks or months.

Alaska Volcanic Observatory said on Wednesday that it was measured during “very high volcanic gas emissions” during recent overflights, and said indications indicated that there was a possibility of explosion, although not fixed in a few weeks or months.

The observatory said in a statement, “We hope to move forward if anyone was about to happen before the explosion in seismic activity, gas emissions, and surface heating.” “Such strong disturbance can provide days up to the week of additional warnings.”

It is an 11,070-foot (3,374-meter) long, ice-and-covered volcano-covered volcanoes about 80 miles (129 km) north-west of the ancres.

Mount Spir Alaska is one of the 53 volcanoes active within the last 250 years. It has two main vents.

The final known explosion from Shikhar Vent was more than 5,000 years ago. Creter Peak Vent, meanwhile, once in 1953 and three times in 1992, according to the Observatory. The crater peak vent is about 2 miles (3 kilometers) to the south of the peak.

Between 2004 and 2006, there has been an increase in earthquake or other activity since then, but there is no other explosion. In the previous October, the observatorry increased its cautious position of green to the mount spur when an increase in seismic activity was pronounced and a ground deformation was seen in the satellite data.

The most likely result of the current unrest would be an explosion or explosion in 1953 and 1992, the observatory said.

However, “it is also possible that there is no explosion and the current activity gradually dies or that is a small explosion,” John Power, a geophysicist with the American Geological Survey in the Observatory, is written in an email.

According to the observatory, the explosion during the last century lasted between three and seven hours, produced ash columns that increased by more than 50,000 feet (15,240 m) above sea level and stored ash into South-Central Alaska communities.

In 1992, about a quarter -inch in -inch aspiols in Encourage inspired the residents to stay inside or wear masks, if going out to avoid going out. Cloud was swept away as Greenland.

The volcanic ash is angular and sharp and has been used as an industrial abyss. The jet engine may be closed from the powder rock.

The 1992 explosions inspired the temporary closure of airports in the anchrel and other communities.

Closing airports may exceed an inconvenience in a state where most of the communities are not connected to the main road system of Alaska. Ted Stevens Encourage International Airport is also one of the world’s busiest cargo hubs.

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