Posted on 11/19/2025 6:10:02 AM PST by Red Badger
Washington's Mount Rainier has suddenly awoken and is buzzing with almost nonstop activity for days, stoking fears that an eruption could come soon.
This towering stratovolcano looms over more than 3.3 million people across the Seattle-Tacoma metro area, threatening to cripple entire communities with ashfall, flooding, and catastrophic mudflows if it erupts.
Since Saturday, Mount Rainier has been experiencing constant vibrations beneath the surface, thousands of tiny tremors blending into one another.
The constant seismic rumblings were detected by the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN), where seismometers on Mount Rainier have recorded three straight days of nearly nonstop, high-energy seismic signals across the west flank of the volcano.
Unlike the seismic activity tied to major earthquakes, the patterns being seen in Washington look more like a volcanic tremor, a type of nonstop hum or roar that begins when magma, hot water, and gas move around inside a volcano.
It doesn't mean Mount Rainier is going to erupt at any moment, but it is a warning sign that volcanic activity could eventually build towards a critical level.
Geologists will be watching for key signs of this volcanic tremor escalating, including its severity increasing in the coming days, actual earthquakes starting inside the volcano, and the ground at Mount Rainier beginning to swell.
When this volcano eventually explodes, it won't be scorching lava flows or choking clouds of ash that threaten Americans, but the lahars: violent, fast-moving mudflows that can tear across entire communities in mere minutes.
Large lahars can crush, bury, or carry away almost anything in their paths, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
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Meh. Probably just gas.
Maybe God’s final warning for them to repent?
Can’t believe this journalist actually used the appropriate name Mt. Rainier.
WIKI:
The many Indigenous peoples who have lived near Mount Rainier for millennia have many names for the mountain in their various languages. A linguistic analysis published in 2025 identified 20 names in indigenous languages for the mountain.[19]
Lushootseed speakers have several names for Mount Rainier, including xʷaq̓ʷ and təqʷubəʔ.[c][5] xʷaq̓ʷ means “sky wiper” or “one who touches the sky” in English.[5] The word təqʷubəʔ means “snow-covered mountain”.[5][6] təqʷubəʔ has been anglicized in many ways, including ‘Tacoma’ and ‘Tacobet’.[20]
Cowlitz speakers call the mountain təx̣ʷúma or təqʷúmen.[7] Sahaptin speakers call the mountain Tax̱úma, which is borrowed from Cowlitz.[8]
Another anglicized name is Pooskaus.[21][clarification needed]
George Vancouver named Mount Rainier in honor of his friend, Rear Admiral Peter Rainier.[22] The map of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 refers to it as “Mt. Regniere”. Although Rainier had been considered the official name of the mountain, Theodore Winthrop referred to the mountain as “Tacoma” in his posthumously published 1862 travel book The Canoe and the Saddle. For a time, both names were used interchangeably, although residents of the nearby city of Tacoma preferred Mount Tacoma.[23][24]
In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the mountain would be known as Rainier.[25] Following this in 1897, the Pacific Forest Reserve became the Mount Rainier Forest Reserve, and the national park was established three years later. Despite this, there was still a movement to change the mountain’s name to Tacoma and Congress was still considering a resolution to change the name as late as 1924.[26][27]
If it blows west ...... oooooooooh boy!!
I was living here when Mt. Saint Helens erupted. I still have a bag of volcanic ash and a Fabergé style egg someone made with some ash.
If Mt. Rainier goes off it has the potential to destroy much more stuff than Mt. Saint Helens due to Rainier’s closeness to population centers. If if buried Seattle and Olympia it would be an instant betterment to the state.
It will interesting to watch as property value diminishes.
Great swaths of suburban sprawl since the 60’s have encroahed on geological and known pyroclastic channels from previous eruptions. Is another Mt. ST. Helen’s scenario developing alongwith with the anticipated Cascadia subduction zone event that is overdue?
The Whale and the Thunderbird of oral traditions from those who peopled the area for millennium may once again clash.
Stay tuned, this will impact a large area of the Pacific Rim of Fire.
I would expect a lot more stress on the libtards equaled only by cousin COVID. “We could die at any moment! Pass the Xanax!”
I thought the Yellowstone volcano was the one that would kill everyone when it finally blows.
Climate Change, no doubt...
How will they blame Trump for this?
Also keep watch over Naval departures from the strategic ports of various fleet components.
Wherever I go I hope there’s rum!
The mountain is angry - wants its name to be Denali again.
Could be a Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed by fire from heaven.
Mt. Rainer blows, Seattle and Portland get destroyed, certainly seems like a biblical prophecy come to life.
Well… Yellowstone probably would kill everybody… If Mount Rainier goes, it will probably just kill Seattle and the suburbs.
I mean, look at what Mount Vesuvius did to the “little“ town of Pompeii…
If I lived out there, I would be very concerned. I read something a while back where they did radar mapping of the ocean floors just off Seattle, and previous pyroclastic flows from Mount Rainier went right through Seattle into the ocean.
So, yeah. If I lived out there, I would be concerned.
Might not happen today. Might not happen tomorrow.
But it is going to happen someday.
God’s answer to the left. /s
“Deadliest?” Is this from past volcanic activity? I’m guessing not.
But, it IS a killer. I’ve read that many, many hikers and climbers have been killed ascending it. Falls, heat, or snow, are all culprits and can occur suddenly on what seems like a routine day.
Adios Portland !
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