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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We’re in Florida in a hardwood hammock forest, not a swamp, non-flood zone, no evacuation zone, 5 miles from the Honeymoon Island beach with a 24/7 pass for $120 annually for as many people that fit in the car and I watch hurricanes (lots of them since 1993 - Helene & Milton most recently) without moving my PCs or anything on my screened hard roof porch and we don’t have a volcano in the backyard.
Oh and no sinkholes - you want to watch out for those.
Its not luck. Its choices and our good Lord. We’re good. ;-)
Sorry, forgot - its late.
We have go bags but its mainly docs and pictures. I cannot imagine sitting below a rumbling volcano. Who could sleep?
My son and his children live just north of Seattle....
good luck to you and God bless.
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