... with even pets given gas masks

Residents in Alaska's largest city are bracing for a looming volcano eruption that scientists have warned could happen in a few weeks.

Mount Spurr, an 11,000-foot-tall volcano, sits just 81 miles from Anchorage, which is home to nearly 300,000 people.

When it blows, the event 'would be explosive,' Matt Haney, scientist-in- charge at the AVO previously told DailyMail.com, adding that it would spew multiple plumes of ash rising as high as 50,000 feet into the air.

Each ash-producing explosive episode would last three to four hours, resulting in Anchorage and other nearby communities being engulfed in a giant cloud.

Poster Comment:

At that altutude there is very little oxygen anyway.

There is a volcano likely to erupt off the coast of Oregon. A volcano just erupted in the Philippines. And Italy might have an enomous eruption soon. We could have another year without a summer. Thst would kill 3 billion people today or in 2026.