This week I did a virtual trip and learned about Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is located in Washington, it's known as the highest mountain of the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. It is a large active stratovolcano that's located 59 miles southeast of Seattle. Stratovolcano's are known as composite volcanos that have built up with many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice and volcanic ash. Mount Rainier is the 21st volcano in the list of most prominent mountains in the world and it stands at 13,211 feet from it's low point. It's last eruption took place in 1894 and it's said that it has erupted at least a dozen times in 2,600 years. Each month there is possibility as many as five quakes that take place at the summit. It has two volcanic craters that overlap at the summit. Each of the craters are over 1,000 feet around. There is a small crater lake that is known that is 130 feet ling and 16 foot in depth. Though this lake is the highest one in the continent when it comes to crater lakes; its underneath 100 feet of ice and can only be reached by going through a network of caves made of ice. This volcano is dangerous because it is very close to a high populated area. The Seattle-Tacoma region could be in grave danger should the volcano erupt again. This would make 3.2 million people evacuate and would cause major challenges. There is one problem with this volcano, it is covered with ice, though it's known by the USGS (US Geological Survey) as potentially the most dangerous volcanos in the mainland of the United States. Mount Rainier Volcano. (n.d.). Retrieved July 28, 2018, from https://www.basicplanet.com/mount-rainier-volcano/
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