[loreldan]

From what I've read recently Seattle should be listed as a city living on borrowed time. I've read a lot of articles about experts worrying about Rainier (a volcano). They said if it did blow it could be a massive eruption.

[FDNYRHEROES]

From what I've read recently Seattle should be listed as a city living on borrowed time. I've read a lot of articles about experts worrying about Rainier (a volcano). They said if it did blow it could be a massive eruption.

"massive?", as in "Seriesly Hugh"?

[megatherium]

My impression is that Rainier will erupt at any time in the next two or three centuries. When it erupts, the primary danger will be lahars -- the glaciers on the mountain will melt, and cause enormous debris and mud flows. Hundreds of thousands of people live in immediate danger from such an event. There are warning sirens in communities downstream from the mountain. Rainier would put on a hell of a show for Seattle, and cause much local misery. But it wouldn't destroy Seattle.

The real danger to Seattle is the Juan de Fuca fault, which lies off of the Oregon and Washington coasts. This fault ruptures every three to six hundred years with magnitude 9 earthquakes. The last such event occurred in January of 1700. This would cause unbelievable devastation in Seattle, Portland and Vancouver BC.