Yet, more than Hawaii’s bubbling lava fields or Yellowstone’s sprawling supervolcano, it’s Mount Rainier that has many US volcanologists worried.
“Mount Rainier keeps me up at night because it poses such a great threat to the surrounding communities.
Mount Rainier, a snowcapped volcano, looms over Puyallup Valley near Orting, Washington.
Mount St. Helens, which cataclysmically erupted in May 1980, ranked as second most hazardous before Mount Rainier in third place.
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory geophysicist Rebecca Kramer works on station PR05, part of the Mount Rainier lahar detection network.
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