REPORT:
Volcano Hazards in the Mount Adams Region, Washington

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Hazardous events at Mount Adams
  • Lava flows are the most likely type of future eruptive event
  • Lava flows can melt snow and ice and cause pyroclastic flows, lahars, and floods
  • Even minor tephra falls can be disruptive and hazardous
  • Landslides and lahars not necessarily related to eruptions pose the most serious threat
  • Debris avalanches and lahars at Mount Adams
• Eruptions in other nearby volcanic fields
• Events at distant volcanoes can impact the Mount Adams region
• Volcano-Hazard-Zonation Map
  • Degree of hazard doesn't change abruptly at zone boundaries
  • Hazard zone for debris avalanches and lahars
  • Hazard zones for lava flows
  • Tephra hazards
• How large an eruption is possible at Mount Adams
• Hazard forecasts and warnings
• Protecting our communities and ourselves from volcano hazards
• Additional reading

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