You know that very special rock you couldn’t resist picking up and taking home? The one with the uncanny shape, the surprising colors, the strange veins? On Saturday, you can take that rock to a ...
New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...
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Oct. 3—September saw an increase in earthquake activity at Mount Adams, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades Volcano Observatory and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. A total ...
May 18th marks the 45th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the creation of the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory. This Saturday they are holding an open house to teach people about ...
Scientists have begun a long overdue study of Glacier Peak in Snohomish County – the second most explosive volcano in the Cascades after Mount St. Helens – in what they hope will lead to badly needed ...
An earthquake swarm began at Mount Rainier on Tuesday (July 8), with the region hit by more than 300 small quakes, the most significant seismicity at the volcano since 2009, the US Geological Survey ...
Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Crater Lake Caldera in Oregon. Obviously, visible lava spewing from a volcano’s caldera, like Hawai’i’s ...
Whenever Mt. Hood erupts, Portland will be glad to have David George. As a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician, George models landslides and lahars at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, ...
A "swarm" of earthquakes began at Mount Rainier in Washington in the early morning hours on Tuesday with hundreds of quakes detected so far, making it the largest such event at the volcano since 2009.