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List of volcanoes in the United States. ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Haleakalā or East Maui Volcano: 3055: 10,023
The United States Geological Survey National Volcanic Threat Assessment is a report containing a ranked list of active volcanoes in the United States posing hazardous risks to the American population. [1] The report was published by the United States Geological Survey in 2005 [2] and revised in 2018. [3]
Mount Hood, also known as Wy'east, is an active stratovolcano in the Cascade Range and is a member of the Cascade Volcanic Arc.It was formed by a subduction zone on the Pacific Coast and rests in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
Most of the volcanoes of the United States are located along the West Coast, at the subduction of the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.During the 20th century there were only two eruptions in the contiguous United States; Lassen in 1915, and Mount St. Helens in 1980, with Mount Hood in 1907 and Medicine Lake Volcano's Glass Mountain in 1910 being minor unvalidated third and fourth ...
The volcanoes with historical eruptions include: Mount Rainier, Glacier Peak, Mount Baker, Mount Hood, Lassen Peak, and Mount Shasta. Renewed volcanic activity in the Cascade Arc, such as the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, has offered a great deal of evidence about the structure of the Cascade Arc. One effect of the 1980 eruption was a ...
A volcanic hazard map for Lassen Peak made by the United States Geological Survey. For basaltic volcanism, blue dots indicate vents, yellow space indicates lava flow zones, and orange space indicates ash fall hazard zones.
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The United States remains virtually the only developed country in the world without a standardized civilian topographic map series in the standard 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 metric scales, making coordination difficult in border regions (the U.S. military does issue 1:50,000 scale topo maps of the continental United States, though only for use by ...