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 ...
You know that very special rock you couldn’t resist picking up and taking home? The one with the uncanny shape, the surprising colors, the strange veins? On Saturday, you can take that rock to a ...
Mount Lassen, in the southern Cascades, erupted on May 22, 1915, 65 years almost to the day before Mount St. Helens. Also known as Lassen Peak, the mountain is the southernmost active volcano in the ...
“In the Cascades, broadly, we’re located along a subduction zone,” explained United States Geological Survey (USGS) Research Geologist Emily Johnson. “So that's where there's an oceanic plate that's ...
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 ...
Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from James Genero IV, EarthScope ...
Our western volcanoes : an overview -- Plates in motion : the ring of fire, hot spots, and supereruptions -- Magma and mountains : how volcanoes erupt and the landforms they build -- Glaciers on ...
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 ...
The Beaverton Police Department is investigating an attempted murder that took place on Jan. 6, at the Comfort Inn & Suites on Southwest Tualatin Valley Hwy. Deadlock broken as Jamie Dunphy elected ...