The Columbian

A lahar on Mount Adams would put thousands at risk but monitoring stations would warn of dangerous flows

TROUT LAKE — As Pat Arnold plucked weeds from her yard with a view of snow-capped Mount Adams, she navigated around large boulders that hint at the volcano’s destructive past. Over the course of ...
KING5

As Mount Rainier expands lahar monitor system, officials consider adding more sites

ASHFORD, Wash. — Mount Rainier has changed the landscape of Washington state before and will someday do it again. But between cataclysmic eruptions, another powerful force threatens those in its ...
Redmond Reporter

Mount Rainier park approves nine new lahar monitoring stations

Mount Rainier’s newly-approved lahar detection upgrades will have a quirk: A couple of stations planted right in the likely paths of mudslides. In other words, researchers will be putting their Mt.
AOL

This scientist is racing to predict deadly volcanic mudslides

In June 2024, early career geologist Gustavo Béjar López traveled to Guatemala for a project aimed at using artificial intelligence to automatically detect and potentially forecast deadly mudslides ...
KING5

Here's what western Washington residents should know about lahars

SEATTLE — Editor's note: The above video on the USGS adding more lahar detection sites at Mount Rainier National Park originally aired June 8, 2021. SEATTLE - Western Washington is virtually ...