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When Fiction Feels Like Reality: Mount Spurr, Global Eruptions, and the World of Inversion
A vigorous eruption column rising over the summit of 1,282-m (4,206 ft)-high Augustine Volcano. Photograph by M.E. Yount, U.S. Geological Survey, March 31, 1986. The earth never stops moving beneath our feet, but sometimes, its rumblings are impossible to ignore. Recent reports indicate that Mount Spurr, a towering peak northwest of Anchorage, Alaska, is showing…