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The series of earthquakes is the first major swarm of seismic events since 2009. Is it safe if you’re planning on visiting?
Hundreds of small earthquakes have rattled Mount Rainier this week in the largest swarm of tremors in more than a decade.
This is now the largest recorded earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier since seismic monitoring at the volcano began in 1982, the ...
The U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory said the swarm began early Tuesday at the 14,410-foot volcano near ...
Mount Rainier was experiencing "the most significant seismic activity" at the volcano in more than 15 years as an "earthquake ...
Hundreds of small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier on Tuesday in the largest such swarm at the active stratovolcano ...
Recent volcanic activity across the Pacific Ring of Fire has raised alarms among scientists and volcanologists, with several ...
The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...
Seismicity has decreased” from 30 events per hour at the peak to a few per hour as of Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said Saturday.
Hundreds of earthquakes are detected at or near Mount Rainier each year, with "swarms" typically occurring once or twice ...
The activity began just before 1:30 a.m. on July 8, with hundreds of earthquakes recorded at depths ranging from over a mile ...