Here's how hard it is summit the five highest mountains in the contiguous United States. While challenging, the pinnacle is ...

The so-called earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier dwindled Friday but has surpassed the last large event at the volcano in 2009 ...

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

WASHINGTON, USA — A "swarm" of small earthquakes near the summit of Mount Rainier Tuesday is no cause for concern, according ...

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

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

Geologists detected hundreds of small earthquakes below the 14,400-foot active volcano in Washington state. It is the largest ...

Earthquakes are common at Mount Rainier, happening about nine times every month, the agency said. Swarms of earthquakes ...

In September 2024, Eric Gilbertson arrived at Mount Rainier with a grant from the American Alpine Club and a simple mission — to find out if the summit was still where everyone thought ...

A researcher with GPS equipment found Mount Rainier is now about 10 feet shorter than previously measured. ... short of the summit at 29,032 feet but still well within the so-called death zone.

Rose Vanderhoof’s July 10 feat made her the oldest woman to summit Mount Rainier, beating Bronka Sundstrom’s record that stood for 21 years. Sundstrom set the record in 2002 when she was 77.