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Unusual earthquake activity at Washington’s Mount Adams, but no signs of eruption threat

Mount Adams, seen here from Mount Saint Helens, is the largest volcano by volume in the Cascade Range. (John Pallister/U.S. Geological Survey) Six low-intensity earthquakes rumbled beneath Mount Adams ...
OPB

65 years before St. Helens blew, another Cascade volcano shocked the Pacific Northwest

Mount Lassen, in the southern Cascades, erupted on May 22, 1915, 65 years almost to the day before Mount St. Helens. Also known as Lassen Peak, the mountain is the southernmost active volcano in the ...
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'Eruption likely': US's most dangerous volcano stirs near major city

On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the Pacific Northwest: what happens when the region’s most dangerous volcano ...
Oregonian

Unusual earthquake activity at Pacific Northwest mountain leads to increased volcano monitoring

Researchers are setting up extra volcanic monitoring stations in the Cascades this month after a flurry of earthquakes. Should you panic? No. According to Wes Thelen, a research seismologist with the ...
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Scientists unravel diverse behaviors of Cascade volcanoes in subduction zone studies

“In the Cascades, broadly, we’re located along a subduction zone,” explained United States Geological Survey (USGS) Research Geologist Emily Johnson. “So that's where there's an oceanic plate that's ...
Forbes

Even ‘Sleeping’ Volcanoes Have Large Magma Bodies Sitting Beneath Them

Mount Rainier - one of many volcanoes found in the Cascade Range - is reflecting in the Reflection Lakes in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State, USA. A seismic survey challenges the ...
PBS

The Cash Prairie Ghost Volcano

To the east of Mount Rainier are the remains of a once-mighty Cascade volcano. In the hills outside of Naches, Washington, at the foot of Mount Rainier are the remains of a much older volcano. Join ...