Washington state may not have to worry about hurricanes, but it is volcano country. The United States has 161 active volcanoes – all in the western U.S. – but only 18 are classified as a "very high ...

Washington’s Mount Rainier has been sending up a flurry of strange signals for days, briefly raising concern that something inside the volcano might be shifting. This towering stratovolcano looms over ...

Mount Rainier has rattled through thousands of tiny earthquakes this year, a reminder that America’s most lethal volcano is very much alive beneath its ice. Those quakes, and a burst of viral alarmism ...