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Located about 60 miles southeast of Seattle in the Cascade Range ... Mount St. Helens, Rainier’s primary threat comes not from its eruptions directly, but from the massive lahars that can be triggered ...
The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only ...
If you plan to drive to the Sunrise Corridor of Mount Rainier National Park this summer, you will have to jump through some hoops to get there. In an announcement on its Instagram page on May 8 ...
See where Washington has five major volcanoes in the Cascade Range: Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams, according to the Washington State Department of ...
A wooden trestle bridge on the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad has been destroyed in an alleged arson, putting the future of the railway’s plans to expand in jeopardy. The fire destroyed a 28-span ...
Mount St. Helens, located in the Cascade Mountain range in Washington State and 50 miles northeast of Portland, is famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. FOLLOWING THE ERUPTION ...
Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad’s wooden trestle bridge between Mineral and Morton caught fire Wednesday night and collapsed on Thursday afternoon in a blaze investigators say was “human-caused.” ...
Rising 14,410 feet above the ocean, Mount Rainier can be seen from Seattle on a clear day, only a couple of hours away. With its cone-shaped peak, it’s an active volcano and one of the most glaciated ...
How did they come to be? Typically, a mountain range will rise in places where two tectonic plates clash with each other. But East Antarctica has been tectonically stable for millions of years.
Authories say the protective equipment used by the group failed on Saturday in the northern Cascade mountain range, in an area called the Early Winter Spires. Officials say the group of four ...
Authories say the protective equipment used by the group failed on Saturday in the northern Cascade mountain range, in an area called the Early Winter Spires. Officials say the group of four mountain ...
The Columbia River Gorge is an 80-mile-long river canyon that cuts through the U.S. Pacific Northwest's Cascade Mountain Range, splitting the states of Washington and Oregon before reaching the ...