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 ...

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

Thirty-one years ago, John Ewert was a college graduate fascinated with Mount St. Helens. Today, he's the new scientist in charge of the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific Northwest history.

A stabbing reportedly took place near the 3500 block of Southeast 122nd Avenue in Portland. Oregon Humane Society hits record 12,000+ adoptions in 2025 The Oregon Humane Society (OHS) marked an ...

VOLCANIC UNREST Rockfall is seen over Mayon Volcano in this photo taken around 9 a.m. on Friday as the Philippine Institute ...

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 ...

More than 300 earthquakes have erupted at Washington's Mount Rainier this week, the largest earthquake swarm at the volcano since 2009. As of Thursday, July 10, 334 earthquakes had been identified at ...

A "swarm" of earthquakes began at Mount Rainier in Washington in the early morning hours on Tuesday with hundreds of quakes detected so far, making it the largest such event at the volcano since 2009.