TACOMA – An emergency radio station mistakenly warned that a massive, volcanic-caused mudflow was headed from the flanks of Mount Rainier and that listeners in the valley below should rush to higher ...

Forget an eruption. The real threat of Mount Rainier is a surging wall of mud that could bury the suburbs and splash Seattle. Some 5,600 years ago, the body of water we call Puget Sound had an arm ...

November 2024, headlines across Washington state warned of 72 hours of near-continuous volcanic tremor at Mount Rainier, with ...

In the shadow of Washington State’s Mount Rainier, about 90,000 people live in the path of a potential large lahar—a destructive, fluid and fast-moving debris flow associated with volcanic slopes. At ...

A new report from the Department of Natural Resources estimates that a volcanic mudflow, known as a ‘"lahar," from Mount Rainier could produce property losses of up to $6 billion to communities in the ...

Something stirred beneath Mount Rainier this summer, sending over 1,000 earthquakes through the ground in weeks—the largest ...

A mudflow that recently burst through the banks of a volcanic lake in New Zealand gave scientists an up-close and personal view of the freak event and a chance to test their disaster warning systems.

Mount Rainier’s newly-approved lahar detection upgrades will have a quirk: A couple of stations planted right in the likely paths of mudslides. In other words, researchers will be putting their Mt.

Sunday's eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala has ended, at least for now, after killing at least 25 people, according to the country's disaster response agency. But even if the volcano remains ...

SEATTLE – Officials plan to improve a volcanic mudflow warning system for Mount Rainier. Scientists say the upgrades could detect trouble sooner and give southeastern Puget Sound residents more time ...

Volcanologist Sarah Fagents from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa had an amazing opportunity to study volcanic hazards first hand, when ...