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Volcanic Hazards in the U.S.

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Outline• Cascades

– Mt. St. Helens– Mt. Rainier– Crater Lake– Mt. Shasta– Lassen

• Other eruptions– Yellowstone– Long Valley– Valles Caldera

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Locations of U.S. Volcanoes

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Subduction Zone Volcanoes

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Cascades

• Subduction of Juan de Fuca plate beneath North America

• Water released from slab aids melting above

• Magma travels toward surface, some cools, other erupts

• 6-7 of these volcanoes have erupted in last 200 years

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Cascades

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Mt. St. Helens

• Very active over last 4000 years

• Eruptions ~ every century– Date past eruptions using old deposits

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St. Helens (pre-1980)

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Mt. St. Helens 1980

• March: small magnitude earthquakes– Indicates magma moving– Also northern side bulge

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Mt. St. Helens 1980

• April: 1.2 mi2 bulge rising 100 m

– Growing by 1.5 m/day

bulge

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Mt. St. Helens 1980

• May 18th: – Magnitude 5.1

earthquake– Triggered

landside on north side

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Mt. St. Helens 1980

• May 18th: – Lahars forming after landslide

• Snow, ice near top of mountain

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Bridge destroyed by lahar

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Mt. St. Helens 1980• May 18th:

– Lateral blast - pyroclastic flow

• Occurred after landslide removed pressure on side of mountain

• Destroyed area ~550 km2

• Timescale: minutes from earthquake

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Mt. St. Helens 1980• May 18th:

– Vertical eruption• Plinian eruption,

reached 12 mi (20 km) high

• 1 km2 ash

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Mt. St. Helens, post eruption

• Rebuilding– Different shape– Lava dome builds

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Effects of 1980 eruption

• 62 deaths

• Significant stream/valley modification

• Clogged Columbia River, shipping channels

• Forest destruction

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Mt. St. Helens FigsAsh removed in Idaho

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Current Activity, Mt. St. Helens

• Sept. 23, 2004 - volcano started grumbling again– Earthquakes, uplifted crater floor, some steam

eruptions 9 days later

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Current Activity, Mt. St. Helens

• Growth of new lava dome

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Current Activity, Mt. St. Helens

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Steam plume, Jan3 2005

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New dome growth indicates magma moving to surface, producing steam

Oct 2004

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Cascades

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Mt. Rainier• Classified as most

dangerous volcano in U.S.– Large glacier system

– Frequent earthquakes

– Active springs

– Just outside Seattle-Tacoma

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Why So Dangerous?

• Could have eruption/landslide like St. Helens– Springs act to weaken structure

• Significant lahar potential

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Previous Activity

• Mudflows date back 5,000+ years

• Most recent 500 years ago

• Significant population centers on lowlands (~100,000 people)

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Activity

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Cascades

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Crater Lake

• Today popular tourist spot

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Mt. Mazama 5677 B.C.

• Stratovolcano in Cascades• Major eruption of lava, pyroclastic debris

– Covered much of Pacific Northwest, Canada with thick layer

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Crater Formation

• Magma chamber empties, leaves void• Top collapses

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Crater Formation

• Magma chamber empties, leaves void• Top collapses

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Lake Formation

• Forms over time• Small volcanic cone in center

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Cascades

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Mt. Shasta and Shastina

• 2nd and 3rd largest volcanoes in Cascades– Last eruption in 1786, at least 3x in last 750

years– Development ongoing in region

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Mt. Shasta

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Lahar paths

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Pyroclastic Flow Danger

Note the increasing number of towns/developments in higher hazard zones

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Cascades

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Lassen Peak

• Actually lava dome forming in region of past large volcano

• Significant eruptions in 1914-1917– Lava flows, pyroclastic flows, ash cloud– Eruptions may have been helped by melting

snow adding to groundwater system

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Lassen

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Outside Cascades

• Significant caldera events in – Yellowstone– Long Valley– Valles

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Yellowstone, WY

• Hotspot volcanism, makes tracks across U.S.

• Youngest volcanics at Yellowstone– Eruptions at 2 million, 1.3 million,

600,000 years ago– Catastrophic eruptions! (600,000

yr event - VEI 8)– Active system, geysers, geothermal

activity today

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Yellowstone event 600,000 years ago

• Erupted ~1,000 km3 of magma– Mt. St. Helens

1km3 of magma

• Created caldera 75 km long, 45 km wide

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Long Valley Caldera

• Not traditional hotspot, but active magma system

• Large eruption ~760,000 years ago– Covered 1,500 km3 with pyroclastic flow

• “Activity” in 1980, more next time

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Long Valley

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Valles Caldera• Associated with Rio Grande Rift

• Last eruption ~1 million years ago

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Next Time

• Volcanic eruption prediction efforts


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