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The so-called earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier dwindled Friday but has surpassed the last large event at the volcano in 2009 ...
More than 300 earthquakes have erupted at Washington's Mount Rainier this week, the largest earthquake swarm at the volcano ...
Mount Rainier is an active stratovolcano 45 miles southeast of Tacoma and 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle. Its last ...
SEATTLE (AP) — Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years on Washington’s Mount Rainier ...
While considered an active volcano, Mount Rainier hasn’t erupted in at least a century, possibly much longer. The U.S ...
Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...
Mount Rainier was experiencing "the most significant seismic activity" at the volcano in more than 15 years as an "earthquake ...
The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...
The quakes began just before 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the Geological Survey at the Cascade Volcano Observatory.
Hundreds of earthquakes are detected at or near Mount Rainier each year, though typical swarms are smaller than what started ...
Geologists are continuing to monitor Mount Rainier in Washington state days after the first earthquake swarm in more than 15 ...
The activity began just before 1:30 a.m. on July 8, with hundreds of earthquakes recorded at depths ranging from over a mile ...