Activity 3: What Might an Eruption of Rainier Be Like?

Meet the volcanoes:

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/meet-the-volcanoes/

Information on stratovolcanoes (and other types, too):

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/volcanoes/index.html

http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/stratovolcanoes

https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/stratoguide/intro.html

Volcano animations for a variety of locations and types:

https://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/hazards/visualizations/volcano.html

https://solidearth.jpl.nasa.gov/rp.html

 

Activity 4: How Do Scientists Monitor Volcanoes?

Animation of ground deformation of Mt Etna prior to eruption:

https://solidearth.jpl.nasa.gov/rp.html

Current monitoring data for Mount Rainier:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount_rainier/mount_rainier_monitoring_86.html

Tools and techniques used to monitor changes in a volcano that might signal an imminent eruption:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/vhp/monitoring.html

 

Activity 5: Monitoring Mount Rainier

Daily updates regarding the level of activity at the Cascades volcanoes:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/observatories/cvo/

Current earthquake monitoring information:

https://pnsn.org/

Reports about hazards associated with Mount Rainier:

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr98428

 

Activity 6: Features and Hazards Along Convergent Boundaries

Information and diagrams of different types of convergent plate boundaries and associated features:

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr98428

 

Digging Deeper

Daily reports and seismograms for the period when Mount St. Helens reawakened in 2004:

https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/st_helens/st_helens_geo_hist_100.html