Alaska’s Mount Spurr has experienced 66 earthquakes in the last week, signaling ‘an elevated level of unrest.’

The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) issued an update Friday, saying that the 11,000-foot-tall volcano has a lower level of erupting than it reported earlier in the year.

In March, AVO sounded the alarm that Mount Spurr could blow in the next few weeks, but ground deformation has slowed over the last month, and the shoreline along the crater has not lost ice as it would if magma were rising to the surface.

‘The likelihood of an eruption has decreased from March, but the volcano remains at an elevated level of unrest and an explosive eruption (or eruptions) like those that occurred in 1953 and 1992 is still possible,’ the AVO shared in the update.

‘We would expect to see weeks or more of more elevated unrest that would provide advance warning of an eruption.’

Mount Spurr is located about 78 miles from Anchorage that is home to nearly 300,000 people preparing for the eruption.

Locals have rushed to stock up on food and protective gear in the event the volcano blows without notice.

If the eruption does happen, the event would spew multiple plumes of ash rising as high as 50,000 feet into the air, Matt Haney, scientist-in-charge at the AVO at US Geological Survey (USGS) told DailyMail.com.

Each ash-producing explosive episode would last three to four hours, and the resulting cloud could blanket the city of Anchorage and other nearby communities in a thick layer of dust.

This is a developing story… More updates to come.