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Mount Rainier is an active stratovolcano 45 miles southeast of Tacoma and 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle. Its last ...
One of the most famous mountains in Washington, Mount Rainier, has been rumbling over the last day due to the amplified ...
The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...
For U.S. earthquake scientists, Japan's 'megaquake' warning renewed worries about when and how to warn the public if they find clues that the 'big one' might be coming for the West COast.
A spike in earthquakes at Mount Adams, a volcano in Washington state, prompted scientists to install additional monitoring instruments to assess the seismic activity.
On April 13, 1949, at 11:55 am, Tacoma was hit by a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. Bob Anderle (far right) looks down at the broken gable and the facing bricks that fell from one of the dormer windows ...
READ MORE: Catastrophic volcano could soon erupt on the Pacific Northwest More than 400 earthquakes rattled Washington's Mount Rainier over just 12 hours on Tuesday, sparking fears that the ...
Nisqually earthquake shook for under a minute but triggered decades of political aftershocks that led Seattle to where it is ...