Studies reveal that beneath seemingly tranquil mountains, magma boils in shallow layers, reducing volcanic warning time.

Discover everything about the Cascade Range mountains. Check their location, volcanoes, climate, and importance across ...

New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Geothermal energy accounts for only 0.4 percent of the U.S.’s energy output, but by using a technique known as “superhot rocks,” that number could ...

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 ...

Hundreds of the animals were loaded into coolers and hiked into the backcountry.

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, ...

The Cascades Volcano Observatory, part of the federal monitoring network, maintains seismometers, GPS stations and gas samplers on and around the major peaks, feeding data into models that track how ...

At the risk of this blog becoming all volcanoes, all the time, I bring you... more volcanoes! Two of my favorite geobloggers wrote mustn't-miss posts on some of our Cascades volcanoes. They showcase ...

Earlier this month, Mount Rainier experienced its most powerful seismic swarm ever recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey. More than 1,000 earthquakes have been detected at the mountain since July 8 — ...

“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 ...