USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington
REPORT:
Volcano Hazards from Mount Rainier, Washington, Revised 1998
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R.P. Hoblitt, J.S. Walder, C.L. Driedger, K.M. Scott, P.T. Pringle, and
J.W. Vallance, 1998,
Volcano Hazards from Mount Rainier, Washington, Revised 1998:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-428
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Revisions in this Report
- Hazardous Phenomena at Mount Rainier
- Tephra
- Ballistic projectiles
- Pyroclastic flows and pyroclastic surges
- Lava flows
- Volcanic gases
- Debris avalanches and lahars
- Lateral blasts
- Glacial outburst floods
- What will happen when Mount Rainier reawakens?
- Protecting our communities and ourselves from volcano hazards
- Volcano-hazard maps
- Hazard zonation for debris avalanches
- Hazard zonation for pyroclastic flows
- Hazard zonation for tephra fall
- Hazard zonation for laterally directed blasts
- Suggestions for further reading
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