G eologists are closely monitoring Mount Spurr in the Aleutian Arc of Alaska, USA, after continued volcanic unrest. The ...
Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced thousands of earthquakes this month while researchers have ...
Fortunately, there are not any communities within the potential path of pyroclastic flows or lahars from Mount Spurr. But the amount of ash that would spew forth from this volcano could pose a ...
Mount Spurr, which sits about 75 miles west of Anchorage, has seen “ volcanic unrest ” for the last 10 months, including an ...
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the devastation unfolded.
Pyroclastic flows – fast-moving ... are associated with the volcano,’ Zelilidis told SKAI, a Greek TV network. Costas Synolakis, who studies natural hazards at the USC Viterbi School of ...
Because there are no communities or cities in the volcano’s vicinity, “there’s no kind of local threat,” Fee said. The main two hazards ... be inundated by pyroclastic flows, mudflows ...
If Mount Spurr does erupt, it could produce explosive plumes of ash, destructive mudslides called lahars and avalanches of ...
“primary hazards during future eruptions include far-traveled ash clouds, ashfall, pyroclastic flows, and lahars or mudflows that could inundate drainages all sides of the volcano, but primarily ...