Officials warn Alaska volcano eruption possible after "a whole lot of earthquakes" recorded
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Scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory are warning that it's possible there could be an eruption at Tanaga Volcano after earthquakes were recorded beneath the volcano's summit.
Earthquake activity began to increase "slowly" under the volcano, which is located on an uninhabited island, at around 1:30 p.m. local time on March 8, according to a post on the observatory's Facebook account. By 8:45 p.m. that evening, the activity had escalated. Two or three earthquakes were occurring each minute, the observatory said.
"We started seeing a whole lot of earthquakes occurring, one after the other, several per minute," John Power, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, or USGS, stationed in Anchorage at the observatory, told the Associated Press.
