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Mount Rainier, the active volcano towering above southwestern Washington state, started rumbling — very lightly — on Tuesday.
Hundreds of small earthquakes rattled one of the most dangerous volcanos in the US Tuesday, setting off fears it could be ...
MT. RAINIER, Wash. — A swarm of small earthquakes was detected at Mount Rainier Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and the Pacific Northwest ...
Hundreds of earthquakes are detected at or near Mount Rainier each year, though typical swarms are smaller than what started ...
On Tuesday, hundreds of earthquakes were detected, with depths ranging from 1.2 to 3.7 miles below the summit.
Geologists detected hundreds of small earthquakes below the 14,400-foot active volcano in Washington state. It is the largest ...
"Hundreds" of small quakes – the largest being a magnitude 1.7 — had been recorded as of 9 a.m. July 8, the USGS said, citing Pacific Northwest Seismic Network data. An exact cause of the ...