eruption
‘There is NO lahar’: Volcano warning was false alarm
Mount Rainier did not erupt on Wednesday morning, but Puyallup residents might have thought it did when a lahar siren rang out downtown around 10 a.m. Thirty minutes after the siren went off, officials took to Twitter to let residents know it was a false alarm. A destructive slurry of mountain debris was not rushing […]
Predicting volcanic eruptions 43 years after the Mount St. Helens blast
Forty-three years ago today, Mount St. Helens erupted, triggering a magnitude 5 earthquake and spewing ash, mud and debris across southwest Washington. The explosion killed 57 people and changed the mountain’s landscape forever. The eruption wasn’t a total surprise. Months before, a series of small earthquakes and steam-venting alerted scientists that a major blast was […]