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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 ...
On July 8, 2025, locals started wondering if the long-dormant volcano may be ready to erupt. A series of earthquakes began occurring in rapid succession, a phenomenon called an "earthquake swarm." The ...
Mount Rainier was experiencing "the most significant seismic activity" at the volcano in more than 15 years as an "earthquake ...
Volcano watchers said Saturday the Mount Rainier earthquake swarm rates continued to decrease. The Cascades Volcano Observatory and Pacific Northwest Seismic Network recorded 464 events since the ...
This is now the largest recorded earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier since seismic monitoring at the volcano began in 1982, the ...
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 ...
The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...
Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...
On Tuesday, hundreds of earthquakes were detected, with depths ranging from 1.2 to 3.7 miles below the summit.
A swarm of hundreds of small earthquakes have been detected rumbling deep below Mt. Rainier in Washington State early Tuesday ...