Mount Spurr, whose volcanic ash darkened Anchorage’s skyin  and 1992, may be building toward another eruption, according to  issued Feb. 6 by Alaska Volcano Observatory.
For months, observatory scientists have monitored a growing number of earthquakes beneath and near the volcano, snow melting atop it, and bulging ground around it.Â
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