A new report from the Department of Natural Resources estimates that a volcanic mudflow, known as a ‘"lahar," from Mount Rainier could produce property losses of up to $6 billion to ...

Mount Rainier National Park held a 48th anniversary event for that first climb in August 1918. Hazard Stevens was there and was in his late 70s; Van Trump and Sluiskin had already passed away.

It was in this time period when the mountain had its first climbers to its summit: Philemon Beecher Van Trump and Hazard ...

Terbush said volcano hazard maps are a good tool to see hazards ... “The most likely hazardous event from Mount Rainier would be a major landslide that transforms rapidly into a volcanic mudflow ...

Reporting from Seattle — The fallout from Mt. Rainier’s shrinking glaciers is beginning to roll downhill, and nowhere is the impact more striking than on the volcano’s west side.

there are serious hazards. In 2018 the USGS updated its assessment of the most dangerous volcanoes in the United States, ranking Mount Rainier third on the list behind Mount St. Helens and Hawaii ...

Terbush points to hazard maps laid out by the U.S. Geological ... Tacoma is just over 40 miles away from Mount Rainier. That all being so, another expert recommends that those living in the ...

The technique lets researchers piece together a three-dimensional map of the park’s snow and ice and calculate how much the frozen world of Mount Rainier has withered. “Every glacier in the ...

Mt. Rainier looms over Puget Sound ... are no plans to put people on the ground at the site because of the ongoing hazards.” In coming “weeks and months,” she said, the climbers’ route ...