Mount Spurr has been returned to a “normal” alert status, with no eruption projected in the near term, months after elevated activity at the volcano triggered a warning from the Alaska Volcano Observatory that an eruption was likely.

In a volcanic activity notice published on Wednesday, the observatory says that signs of volcanic unrest at Mount Spurr have been decreasing. No ground deformation has been detected since March. The number of earthquakes and rate of gas emissions and ice melting is declining.

“Taken together, this means that the movement of magma toward the surface, which began in early 2024, has stopped,” the notice reads. “As a result, the chances of an eruption in the near-term are now considered extremely low.”

The observatory notes that small earthquakes are still happening near the mountain more often than a baseline from before unrest began last year. That’s normal, they write, in volcanoes where magma has risen but no eruption has occurred. Continued gas emissions and an elevated rate of earthquakes “could persist for many months to several years.”

Spurr, one of more than 50 active volcanoes in Alaska, is located about 61 miles away from Kenai and 117 miles away from Homer.

For more information, visit avo.alaska.edu/volcano/spurr.

Reach reporter Jake Dye at jacob.dye@peninsulaclarion.com.