The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...

Heading to the Pacific Northwest, Skagit Valley in Washington state nabbed second spot. With low air pollution and over 6,000 ...

Mount Baker's glaciers unveil the secrets of three ancient volcanoes over millennia.

Mount Rainier is an active stratovolcano 45 miles southeast of Tacoma and 60 miles south-southeast of Seattle. Its last ...

Mt. Baker in Washington seen by Sentinel-2 on August 18, 2023. Credit: ESA The first potentially active Cascade volcano in the US, Mt. Baker is also one that shows off that it is far from extinct.

Glaciers on Mount Baker are seen from the Heliotrope Ridge Trail in August 2020, The 10,781-foot volcano is about 50 miles east of Bellingham.

A geologist from Eastern Washington State College warned that Mount Baker “could blow suddenly and take us by surprise,” The Spokesman-Review reported on April 6, 1975. (Spokesman-Review archives) ...

Scientists have recorded the "largest" earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier in Washington state since 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The swarm at the second-most seismically active ...

Where is Mount St. Helens? Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington. The volcano formed through four eruptive events starting about 275,000 years ago, according to the USGS.

Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak are four of the active volcanoes in Washington state. The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier.

Sunday marks the anniversary of the May 18, 1980, volcanic eruption that rocked the Northwest. Geologist Carolyn Driedger recounts the haunting day before that catastrophic event — and its ...

A 39-year old Canadian climber embarked on climbing Mt. Baker in the North Cascades just outside of Bellingham, Washington alone in late September. Tragically, he was found dead Monday, September ...