There is something quietly disorienting about standing in the middle of a high desert and realizing the ground beneath your ...

Mount Rainier (Figure 2.1) is one of about two dozen recently active volcanoes in the Cascade Range, a volcanic arc formed by subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the North American plate.

Volcanoes and earthquakes have always shared the same restless roots, but the numbers that drive public fear are not always the ones scientists are actually using. A viral claim that a swarm of 10,000 ...