USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington
Mount Rainier, Washington
- Current Activity
- Background and Information
- Current Hazards Report
- Special Items of Interest
- Maps, Graphics, and Images
- Publications and Reports
- Items of Interest
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Active and Potentially Active Volcanoes in Washington State
-- Excerpt from: Wright and Pierson, 1992, USGS Circular 1073, includes Mount Rainier
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America's Volcanic Past - Mount Rainier National Park
-- volcanic highlights and features
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America's Volcanic Past - Washington State
-- volcanic highlights and features, includes Mount Rainier
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Annotated NASA Image -
Mount Rainier, Washington, September 1994
-- [Image,80K,InlineJPG]
-- NASA photo, courtesy NASA Earth From Space,
modified with text by USGS/CVO
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Annotated NASA Images - Menu
-- includes Mount Rainier and other Washington State Volcanoes
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ArcInfo Coverage - Washington State
-- 1995 Washington State On-Line Spacial Data Sets, includes Mount Rainier
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Areas inundated by mudflows from Mount Rainier in the last 5,600 years - Map
-- [Map,23K,InlineGIF]
-- Modified from: Sisson, 1995
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Armchair Tour of Mount Rainier
-- Twelve Stops - Twelve Views"
-- Circle the mountain and see views you may never have seen before ...
The tour begins at Longmire's National Park Inn and travels
counter-clockwise where it ends at Iron Mountain ...
Along the way read about Mount Rainier's eruptive history,
the creation of the National Park, future volcanic activity
and current scientific monitoring
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Cascade Range Current Activity Updates
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Cascade Range Summary - Mount Rainier
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Cascade Range Volcanoes and Volcanics - Menu
-- general information about Cascade Range volcanoes and volcanic activity,
including Mount Rainier
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Cascades Eruptions During the Past 4,000 Years - Graphic
-- [Graphic,110K,InlineGIF]
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Current Activity Menu - Mount Rainier
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Current Seismicity - Link
-- Link courtesy University of Washington Pacific Northwest Seismic Network
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Debris Flows, Mudflows, and Lahars - Menu
-- Mount Rainier's Historical and Modern Debris Flows Menu
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Decade Volcanoes - Menu
-- The aim of the Decade Volcanoes project is to direct attention to a
small number of selected, active volcanoes world-wide and to encourage the
establishment of a range of research and public-awareness activities aimed at
enhancing an understanding of the volcanoes and the hazards posed by them ...
includes Mount Rainier
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Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu
-- general information about the Volcano Deformation Project and the monitoring
of the Cascade Volcanoes, including Mount Rainier
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Earthquakes and Seismicity - Menu
-- Mount Rainier Earthquakes and Seismicity, includes
historical, plots, charts, links
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Electron and other Historical Mudflows - Menu
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Eruptive History - Menu
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Eruptive History - Mount Rainier
-- Excerpt from: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Eruptive History - Summary of Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- merged from various sources, in table format
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Geographic Setting - Description
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Geologic Map of Washington State
-- [Map,82K,InlineGIF]
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Geology of Interactions of Volcanoes, Snow, and Water - CVO Project Menu
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Geology of Mount Rainier National Park
-- Fiske, et.al., 1963
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Glaciers and Glaciations - Menu
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Glacial Outburst Floods - Glaciers Menu
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Hazards - Menu
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Hazards Map and Report
-- Current 1998
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Hazards Map [270K,PDF]
-- Hazards zones for lahars, lava flows, and pyroclastic flows from
Mount Rainier
-- PDF Format
-- From: Scott, et.al., 1998, USGS Fact Sheet 065-97, based on
Hoblitt, et.al., 1998, USGS Open-File Report 98-428
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Hazards "Posters"
-- Four "Poster-Style" Maps to download covering the hazards of
Mount Rainier;
"Osceola and Electron Mudflows";
"Lava and Pyroclastic Flow Hazards";
"Lahar Hazards";
"Ashfall Hazards"
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Hazards Report and Map
-- Current 1998
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Historical Debris Flows and Mudflows - Menu
-- including Osceola and Electron Mudflows
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Historical Information
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History and Hazards of Mount Rainier, Washington
-- Sisson, 1995
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History of Landslides and Debris Flows at Mount Rainier
-- Scott and Vallance, 1993
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Holocene Tephras from Mount Rainier - Graphic
-- [Graphic,15K,GIF]
-- From: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Hydrology - Menu
-- Mount Rainier's Hydrology and Hydrologic Processes Menu
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Hydrothermal Areas - Description
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Lahars and Mudflows - Menu
-- Mount Rainier lahars and mudflows, including the Osceoal and Electron, also
includes modern-day lahars
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Lahar Warning System
-- Puyallup Valley
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Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk
-- Driedger and Scott, 2002
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Living With A Volcano In Your Backyard -
Volcanic Hazards at Mount Rainier
-- Walder and Driedger, 1995
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Living with Perilous Beauty
-- Scott, Wolfe, and Driedger, 1998
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Maps and Graphics - Mount Rainier
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Monitoring - Menu
-- Volcano and Hydrologic Monitoring of Mount Rainier
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Monitoring Mount Rainier Volcano - An Introduction
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Mount Rainier
-- Excerpt from: Swanson, et.al., 1989, AGU Field Trip Guidebook T106
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Mount Rainier - America's Volcanic Past
-- volcanic highlights and features
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Mount Rainier - Armchair Tour
-- Twelve Stops - Twelve Views"
-- Circle the mountain and see views you may never have seen before ...
The tour begins at Longmire's National Park Inn and travels
counter-clockwise where it ends at Iron Mountain ...
Along the way read about Mount Rainier's eruptive history,
the creation of the National Park, future volcanic activity
and current scientific monitoring
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Mount Rainier - Description
-- Geographic Setting, Geologic and Eruptive History
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Mount Rainier - Learning to Live with Volcanic Risk
-- Driedger and Scott, 2002
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Mount Rainier - Living with Perilous Beauty
-- Scott, Wolfe, and Driedger, 1998, USGS Fact Sheet 065-97
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Mount Rainier - Visit A Volcano
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Mount Rainier Educational Outreach - Menu
-- Educational Ideas
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Mount Rainier National Park - America's Volcanic Past
-- volcanic highlights and features
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Mount Rainier National Park - Visit A Volcano
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Mount Rainier National Park - Volcanic Highlights and Features
-- America's Volcanic Past
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Mount Rainier Vicinity with Select Place Names - Map
-- [Map,29K,InlineGIF]
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Mount Rainier Volcano Lahar Warning System
-- Puyallup Lahar Warning System
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Mount Rainier and Mauna Loa: Profile of shield volcano versus composite volcano -
Graphic
-- [Graphic,10K,GIF]
-- Modified from: Tilling, Heliker, and Wright, 1987
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Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- summary, merged from various sources, in table format
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Osceola and other Historical Mudflows - Menu
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Outreach - Mount Rainier - Menu
-- educational ideas
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Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network
-- University of Washington Geophysics Program's
Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, includes maps and links
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Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network - Mount Rainier Vicinity - Map
-- [Map,13K,InlineGIF]
-- Modified from:
University of Washington Geophysics Program, 1997
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Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network -
Oregon and Southern Washington - Map
-- [Map,30K,InlineGIF]
-- includes Mount Rainier
-- Modified from:
University of Washington Geophysics Program, 1999
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Peter Rainier
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CVO Photo Archives - Mount Rainier
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Postglacial Lahars from Mount Rainier Volcano, Washington
-- Crandell, 1971
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Publications and Reports - Mount Rainier
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Puyallup Lahar Warning System
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Puyallup River Valley - Menu
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Rainier (Peter Rainier)
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River Drainages - Menu
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Seismicity - Menu
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Source, age, and description of some postglacial pyroclastic deposits
in Mount Rainier National Park
-- Modified from: Crandell, 1971, USGS Professional Paper 677
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Summary of Notable Events at Mount Rainier
-- merged from various sources, in table format
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Thermal Areas - Description
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Twelve Stops - Twelve Views
-- Circle the mountain and see views you may never have seen before ...
The tour begins at Longmire's National Park Inn and travels
counter-clockwise where it ends at Iron Mountain ...
Along the way read about Mount Rainier's eruptive history,
the creation of the National Park, future volcanic activity
and current scientific monitoring
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Videos
-- Mount Rainier videos available through the
Northwest Interpretive Association
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Visit A Volcano - Mount Rainier National Park
-- information, maps, driving information, tourism, links, etc.
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Volcanic Heights in the Western United States
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Volcanic Highlights and Features - Mount Rainier National Park
-- America's Volcanic Past
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VolcanoCams Around The World
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Volcano Deformation Project - CVO Project Menu
-- general information about the Volcano Deformation Project, including
monitoring of Washington State Volcanoes
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Volcano Names
-- includes Mount Rainier
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Volcanoes of Lewis and Clark
-- includes sightings of Mount Rainier
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Washington State Volcanoes and Volcanics - Menu
-- general information about Washington State Volcanoes and Volcanic Activity
- Useful Links
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CVO Educational Outreach Menu
-- CVO Menu -- Educational Ideas,
Information, Teacher's Aids, "Fun Stuff",
Videos and Posters, USGS Educational Links, etc.
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Living With Volcanoes
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Facts and Information; Questions and Answers; Historical,
Cultural, and the Economic Sides of Volcanoes; Tourism and Recreation
Information, "Real-Time" World-Wide Volcano-Cams;
and Information About "Dantes Peak"
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08/14/03, Lyn Topinka