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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Mount Rainier 3rd Most Dangerous Volcano – Yahoo! News

Mount Rainier over Tacoma, Washington, USA.
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Mount Rainier 3rd Most Dangerous Volcano – Yahoo! News

The agency ranks Mount Rainier as the third most dangerous volcano in the nation, after Kilauea on Hawaii’s Big Island and Mount St. Helens. Both are currently active.

Other studies call Rainier the most dangerous volcano in the world not just for its explosive potential, but because of the 3 million people who live in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue metropolitan area. At least 100,000 people live on top of Rainier mudflows that have solidified.

Well, I’ve been hearing this for years, being that I’m from Washington. If Rainier explodes, though, it could prove to be so much more devastating than Mt. St. Helens because of it’s proximity to Seattle. I don’t know what writing an ariticle about it is going to do, though. It’s not like people are going to move.

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    ManDrake

    I’ve often wondered that myself. It’s like predicting that there is going to be a bad hurricane season? What purpose does it really serve? People aren’t going to suddenly get good sense and get out of the way. If it’s too dangerous, turn it all into a national park and all it a day. If your not going to do that, sure seems like a waste of resources to talk about it. But then again you’ll have some yahoo on TV screaming about how no one told anybody that it was a volcano. So I guess it could be a little bit of CYA going on.

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