The snowcapped peak of Mount Rainier, which towers 4.3 kilometers (2.7 miles) above sea level in Washington state, has not produced a significant volcanic eruption in the past 1,000 years.

Mount Adams in Washington state is seismically calm. But a flurry of earthquakes around the volcano has garnered attention ...

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part ... The Sicily, Italy, volcano is almost constantly in a state of eruption. Get there: From Seattle (95 miles) or Tacoma ...

The tremors, with magnitudes ranging from 0.9 to 2.0, are unprecedented for the 12,200-foot mountain, which usually ...

Scientists are installing multiple temporary seismic monitoring stations to get a better understanding of the sharp increase ...

Mount Adams in Washington experiences more earthquakes than usual, but experts say there's no immediate danger.

Nestled in the Cascades about 50 miles from Yakima, Mount Adams typically only experiences about 1 earthquake every 2-3 years ...

whose spectacular 1980 eruption in the Pacific Northwest killed dozens of people and sent volcanic ash across the country, and massive Mount Rainier, which towers above the Seattle metro area.

Getty Images The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupting in 2016 However in other instances, such as the eruption of Mount Ontake in Japan in 2014, there was no alarm raised because of how sudden ...