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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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Is McKinley a volcano?
Kidz...
But pre-1980 St. Helens had only small glaciers, so its 1980 cataclysmic eruption produced a massive Plinian ash column, a lateral blast, and pyroclastic flows that dominated the event, while lahars, though large, were secondary and stayed mostly in remote valleys.
Mount Rainier, by contrast, sits under the largest glacial ice volume of any mountain in the contiguous U.S., 1 cubic mile!. Rainier has about five times more ice than all other Cascade volcanoes combined. Even a modest eruption (or a non-eruptive flank collapse like the 5,600-year-old Osceola Mudflow) can melt or dislodge huge volumes of ice and snow almost instantly.
Mt. Rainier's greatest known disasters—such as the 5,600-year-old Osceola Mudflow and the 500-year-old Electron Mudflow—were gigantic lahars triggered by flank collapses or modest eruptions, not huge ash plumes. The Osceola event alone sent a lahar more than The Osceola Mudflow from Mount Rainier traveled about 60 miles to reach Puget Sound and buried more than 190 square miles of land under mud that was locally up to 100 feet deep.
These were triggered by flank collapse and hydrothermal weakening, not necessarily by a 1980-style explosion.
Because of this ice cap and steep, debris-filled valleys draining toward densely populated suburbs of Seattle–Tacoma, scientists expect Rainier’s next major hazard to be fast-moving lahars that bury towns around Puget Sound under tens of feed of mud in under an hour, even if the eruption itself is relatively small or produces little ash.
That’s why you hear “lahars” for Rainier and “explosion” for St. Helens in 1980.
No........
I’m way too close to Yellowstone now, I hope it won’t shake that one loose.
Climate change strikes again. Or is it Trump’s fault? Or Israel’s?
It’s hard to keep up these days....
When it goes, next week, next year or next century, it’s going to kill many hundreds of thousands with little warning.
Even if there is substantial geological warnings, people will not heed them.................
There blows the CO2 and sulfur dioxide soon. We need to cork volcanoes and shade the sun . Five years left
If Mount Rainier goes, it will probably just kill Seattle and the suburbs.
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It depends how a 14,400 foot tall volcano behaves - does it just blow its top as you suggest, or as a geologist suggested it would just blow up - the whole mountain - gone.
That could happen, if there is not enough pressure to push the magma up 14,400 feet. The magma would blow out the bottom of the mountain, collapsing the entire structure, wiping out everything from Portland to the Canadian border to the Cascade mountains, killing millions instantly - and that is just from the initial blast.
God, is preparing to wipe out the drug ridden, pedophile ,tranny, homo, lesbo ,Godless hoards.
Current PC/DEI name is Mt. Tahoma
And that’s just in DC...............
Could be
When in doubt, blame Capitalism................
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or Trump ...
150+ miles away?
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How far can an exploding volcano 14,400 feet tall fling rocks?
“I thought the Yellowstone volcano was the one that would kill everyone when it finally blows.”
It’s not a volcano.
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Right, its a super volcano.
Everyone versus Lots
Sits on the fault line...right?
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The Pacific Ring of Fire. Where tectonic plates meet and are either being subducted or overridden.
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