volcano

  • Mt. Rainier geology guidebook wins national honor

    Who’s got the best geoscience guidebook? We can make a good case that it’s DNR. The agency’s publication, Roadside Geology of Mount Rainier National Park and Vicinity by former DNR geologist Pat Pringle, won the Geoscience Information Society’s Best Guidebook Award… Continue reading

  • Snoqualmie Falls is site of a very old (and very extinct) volcano

    DNR geologist Joe Dragovich explains in an interview with Q13 in Seattle (aka KCPQ-TV) how he and a team of geologists detected only recently that Snoqualmie Falls actually flows over the site of a 50 million-year-old extinct volcano. Read more… Continue reading

  • Volcanoes? Yep, we’ve got them, too

    Concluding our four part series on major natural hazards in Washington State is this information about volcanoes. Washington State is home to one of the most well-known volcanic eruptions, the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens.  The eruption caused 57… Continue reading

  • How much do you know about landslides in Washington State?

    September is National Preparedness Month. Washington contains many natural hazards, but how much do you really know about these hazards? Here an overview of our landslide hazards. Landslides occur every year in Washington State. Our climate, topography, and geology create a… Continue reading

  • Mt St Helens erupted on this date 29 years ago

    Today is the 29th anniversary of the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens  erupted, resulting in one of the largest landslides and worst volcanic disasters in modern history. The blast from the eruption destroyed… Continue reading