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Know the Facts, Be Empowered !

North West Region Risks

Volcanoes

Five in Washington State (Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams) and Mount Hood in northern Oregon that are long-lived volcanoes, having erupted recurrently for hundreds of thousands of years
What can happen?
  • With virtual certainty, Cascade volcanoes will erupt again, even within our lifetimes.
  • Volcanoes provide us with warning signs of reawakening days to months in advance of an eruption, but exact timing and size can only be estimated.
  • ​Our volcanoes are snow-topped cones that erupt explosively, with lots of ash and deadly mud flows
  • A common scenario is the eruption of volcanic ash, and later melting snow and ice, which can create lahars (volcanic mudflows). Lahars can surge off a restless or erupting volcano and flow down valleys for tens of miles
Volcanic Hazards
  • ​What are Volcanic Hazards (USGS) 
  • Cascade Range - Wikipedia
  • Airborne Volcanic Ash - A Global Threat to Aviation (USGS) 
  • Volcanic Ashfall
    • English (PDF)
    • Spanish (PDF)
Volcano Preparedness
  • Emergency Resource Guide - 2013
  • Volcano Fact Sheet 
  • ​Volcanic Adventures of Terry the Turtle/Gracie the Wonder Dog 
  • The Beautiful Mountain in the Sky; How to Be Safe if a Lahar Flows Down the Mountain (Grades K-6) ​
Watching lava (& evacuations) from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano (May 2018)? Our state has five active volcanoes, which aren’t currently erupting, but that could change quickly, just like in Hawaii.

Sign up for volcano notification alerts. https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vns2/

Learn more https://www.mil.wa.gov/…/may-recognized-as-volcano-prepared…
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This is a LiDAR image of the lahar zone near Mount Rainier. Learn more and download higher resolution versions of this image and others athttps://www.dnr.wa.gov/lidar
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​Nine Cascade volcanoes have the potential to erupt in our lifetimes, Moran said. (In Washington they are: Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Glacier Peak, Mount Baker and Mount Adams. In Oregon: Crater Lake, Mount Hood, Newberry Volcano and the Three Sisters.)
All are currently quiet, but the eruption that blew off Mount St. Helens’ top in 1980 and the dome-building eruptions that followed in 2004-2008 show how quickly the giants can stir to life.

The most likely scenario, though, is that any eruption will be preceded by days to weeks of seismic rumblings, ground movement and gas emissions that signal the movement of magma — and which can be detected by ongoing monitoring at all the region’s volcanoes.
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USGS Volcano Hazard Program

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​Very High Threat Potential 1
  • Crater Lake
  • Glacier Peak
  • Mount Baker
  • Mount Hood
  • Mount Rainier
  • Mount St. Helens
  • Newberry
  • Three Sisters
High Threat Potential 1
  • Mount Adams
Moderate Threat Potential 1
  • Mount Bachelor
Low to Very Low Threat Potential 1
  • Belknap
  • Black Butte Crater Lava Field
  • Blue Lake Crater
  • Cinnamon Butte
  • Craters of the Moon Volcanic Field
  • Davis Lake Volcanic Field
  • Devils Garden Lava Field
  • Diamond Craters Volcanic Field
  • Four Craters Lava Field
  • Hell's Half Acre Lava Field
  • Indian Heaven Volcanic Field
  • Jordan Craters Volcanic Field
  • Lava Mountain Lava Field
  • Mount Jefferson
  • Sand Mountain Volcanic Field
  • Wapi Lava Field
  • West Crater Volcanic Field

1. View the threat rankings of US Volcanoes.
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