{"id":31958,"date":"2025-04-12T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T23:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31958"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:36:50","slug":"mount-spurr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-spurr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Spurr"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mount Spurr Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Dozens of mini-earthquakes have rattled Alaska&#8217;s Mount Spurr recently, sparking fears among scientists that the towering 11,000-foot volcano may be on the verge of a major eruption.<\/p>\n<h2>About Mount Spurr<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an<strong> ice- and snow-covered active stratovolcano<\/strong> complex located in the north-central Cook Inlet region about 100 kilometers west of <strong>Anchorage, Alaska, United States.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The volcano sits at the south edge of a break in the <strong>Alaska Range.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is composed mostly of <strong>andesite<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It consists of a breached stratovolcano, a lava dome at the summit of Mount Spurr, and <strong>Crater Peak vent<\/strong>, a small stratocone on the south flank of Mount Spurr volcano.<\/li>\n<li>The mountain is 3,000 m high and is topped with a 5 by 6 km caldera.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The mountain suffered a crater collapse around 10,000 years ago that created <strong>Chakachamna Lake.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>There is an<strong> active icefield in the caldera and multiple glaciers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The volcano <strong>last erupted in 1992. <\/strong>That eruption resulted in heavy ashfall and affected air travel in the region.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mount Spurr FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. When was the last time Mount Spurr erupted?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The most recent eruption of Mount Spurr occurred in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What type of volcano is Mount Spurr?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Mount Spurr volcano is an ice- and snow-covered stratovolcano.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the approximate height of Mount Spurr?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 3,000 meters<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/alaskas-mt-spurr-volcano-showing-signs-of-eruption-amid-surge-in-quakes-and-gas-emissions\/articleshow\/120215234.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Mount Spurr is an ice- and snow-covered active stratovolcano complex located about 100 kilometers west of Anchorage, Alaska, United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31959,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}