{"id":201009,"date":"2024-12-08T17:08:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/earthquakes-under-a-volcano-near-alaskas-largest-city-raise-concerns"},"modified":"2024-12-08T17:08:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:08:17","slug":"earthquakes-under-a-volcano-near-alaskas-largest-city-raise-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/earthquakes-under-a-volcano-near-alaskas-largest-city-raise-concerns","title":{"rendered":"Earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska\u2019s largest city raise concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earthquakes-under-a-volcano-near-alaskas-largest-city-raise-concerns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) \u2014 An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska\u2019s largest city this year has geologists paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Spurr, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, last erupted in 1992, spewing an <a class=\"\" data-gtm-enhancement- href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/alaska-volcano-ash-cloud-aleutian-islands-20ffcb04b2a4534927dcdfcd548cb584\">ash cloud<\/a> nearly 12 miles (19 kilometers) into the air, prompting flights to be canceled and people to don masks. Another eruption at the 11,100-foot (3,383-meter) stratovolcano could be severely disruptive to the city, according to the Alaska Volcano Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>The observatory raised its alert status for Mount Spurr in October \u2014 from green to yellow \u2014 when the increase in seismic activity became pronounced and a ground deformation was spotted in satellite data. Observatory scientist David Fee said Friday there have been about 1,500 small earthquake below the volcano this year, compared to about 100 in a normal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) \u2014 An increase in the number of earthquakes under a volcano near Alaska\u2019s largest city this year has geologists paying attention. Mount Spurr, about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northwest of Anchorage, last erupted in 1992, spewing an ash cloud nearly 12 miles (19 kilometers) into the air, prompting flights to be canceled [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}