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

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

A series of earthquakes near Japan’s remote Tokara Islands over the past two weeks, along with a major eruption from a long-dormant volcano earlier this week, has added to growing speculation about a ...

Hundreds of earthquakes are detected at or near Mount Rainier each year, with "swarms" typically occurring once or twice ...

Hundreds of small earthquakes were detected at Mount Rainier on Tuesday in the largest such swarm at the active stratovolcano ...

The giant earthquake was recorded at 12:37 p.m. local time, southeast of Sand Point, a community located on Popof Island in ...

Mount Rainier, the active volcano towering above southwestern Washington state, started rumbling — very lightly — on Tuesday.

The eruption occurred in the early hours of July 16. Officials say lava is flowing towards uninhabited areas and is not an ...

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north Sacramento Valley shakes.

SEATTLE (AP) — Officials are tracking the largest swarm of earthquakes in more than 15 years on Washington’s Mount Rainier ...

A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula erupted Wednesday morning, prompting the evacuation of one of the country's most popular tourist destinations, the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa near Grindavík.

Earth Sciences New Zealand say a swarm of nearly 100 small - relatively deep - earthquakes near Mount Ruapehu have not altered the volcano's alert level. The earthquakes were observed over two days ...