The Nisqually Glacier and the start of the Nisqually River are visible from a viewpoint along the Nisqually Vista Trail on Friday, June 6, 2025, at Mount Rainier National Park. The recent swarm of ...

More than 300 earthquakes have erupted at Washington's Mount Rainier this week, the largest earthquake swarm at the volcano since 2009. As of Thursday, July 10, 334 earthquakes had been identified at ...

A swarm of small earthquakes is still shaking Mount Rainier, marking the most significant seismic activity at the Cascade volcano in decades. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Cascades Volcano Observatory, ...

Whenever Mt. Hood erupts, Portland will be glad to have David George. As a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician, George models landslides and lahars at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, ...

Scientists at the rim of the volcano smelled hydrogen sulfide, similar to rotten eggs, said Jeff Wynn, chief scientist for volcano hazards at the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascade Volcano Observatory.

“It’s now a larger swarm than anything we’ve seen since we’ve been (seismic) monitoring anything at Mount Rainier,” Alex Iezzi, a research geophysicist, said in an interview Thursday. Researchers ...

More than 300 earthquakes have erupted at Washington's Mount Rainier this week, the largest earthquake swarm at the volcano since 2009. As of Thursday, July 10, 334 earthquakes had been identified at ...

Researchers detected the largest Mount Rainier earthquake swarm on record. Over 400 small quakes have been located as of Friday and many more have been detected. The temblors have shown no evidence ...