Kulshan (Mount Baker) Stratovolcano© ™ ®, part of the Cascadia Volcanic Arc © ™ ®

>> slide image left >> 18 kilometres south of the Canadian border, 108 kilometres east of Vancouver, Canada, 3,286~3,288 m (10,786 ft) Mount Baker (Kulshan) Stratovolcano is where the westward moving North America Tectonic Plate, collides with the Juan de Fuca Tectonic Plate. It is active. The United States Geologic Survey rates it a VERY HIGH RISK. If the wind is from the east, the tephra will fall on Vancouver, Canada in about an hour. Hyperlinks your own social media.

Universal Coordinated Time UTC – ZULU is a 24 hour clock. During an eruption, if the wind is from the east at 10,000 feet (outflow), the tephra will fall on Vancouver, Canada in about an hour. If the Kulshan Wind is from the west (inflow) the tephra will fall on Merritt, BC in about 40 minutes. There are extremes in preparedness, of course. As a basis of my work I use the 2015 Profile of Earthquake Risk in the District of North Vancouver by Earthquake Canada, wherein they state that there is 30% chance of a M7.3 in the middle of the Salish Sea, say between North Vancouver, Nanaimo and Victoria, in the next 50 years, that will bring down 839 buildings, just among the 80,000 residents in the District of North Vancouver. Hyperlinked where I can. Good morning, everyone. We begin to deal with BIG (MEGA) EARTHQUAKES at New Cascadia Dawn © ™ ® - Cascadia Rising - M9 to M10+, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guides © ™ ® next, Mount Baker Stratovolcano (background) © ™ ® / Kulshan Stratovolcano © ™ ®, Simon Fraser University (foreground) ~ Image by Stan G. Webb - In Retirement © ™ ®, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guides © ™ ® next, The Man From Minto © ™ ® - A Prospector Who Knows His Rocks And Stuff © ™ ® Learn more about the Cascadia Volcanic Arc © ™ ® (Part of Pacific Ring of Fire) Cascadia Volcanoes © ™ ® and the currently active Mount Meager Massif © ™ ®, part of the Cascadia Volcanic Arc © ™ ® [ash flow, debris flows, fumaroles and hot springs], just northwest of Pemberton and Whistler, Canada ~ My personal interest in the Mount Meager Massif © ™ ® is that the last volcanic vent blew north, into the Bridge River Valley [The Bridge River Valley Community Association (BRVCA), [formerly Bridge River Valley Economic Development Society], near my hometown. I am the Man From Minto © ™ ® - A Prospector Who Knows His Rocks and Stuff © ™ ® (Severe). Earthquake Drill 3rd Thursday in October 19, 2023 at 10:20 AM Pacific I grew up in small towns and in the North where the rule is share and share alike. So, I'm a Creative Commons type of guy. Copy and paste ANY OF MY MATERIAL anywhere you want. Hyperlinks to your own Social Media are at the bottom of each post.

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Showing posts with label Lahars. Show all posts

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Friday, January 22, 2021

What would happen if Komo Kulshan / Mount Baker erupted?

Simon Fraser University (foreground) Kulshan Stratovolcano© / Mount Baker Stratovolcano (background)© ~ Image by Stan G. Webb - In Retirement©, An Intelligent Grandfather's Guides©

https://youtu.be/o_-xbEJcjG8 [1:30 minutes]

Bellingham Herald

With renewed interest following the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, geologists say the biggest threat from Pacific Northwest volcanoes like Mount Baker is not lava, but mud and debris flows.

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Lahar / Debris Flow Potential from 3,286 m (10,781 ft), Kulshan Stratovolcano© / Mount Baker Stratovolcano© - 13 July '11: Mer de Glace Debris Flow

This might be what a lahar / debris flow coming down from the glaciated ice sheet on top of 3,286 m (10,781 ft) Mount Baker Stratovolcano. It would likely look like:

13 July '11: Mer de Glace Debris Flow

https://youtu.be/SK0ZtaDPzZw [9:00 minutes]

Published on Jul 31, 2011

The two summits are located on the west ridge of the Aiguille Verte (4,122 m) and are connected to each other by the Brèche du Dru(3,697 m). The north face of the Petit Dru is considered one of the six great north faces of the Alps.

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Debris Flow above Mer de Glace Glacer, below Les Drus peak, near Chamonix, France, shot from about 500 yards away. Significantly condensed; debris flow continued for over 45 minutes. [Wikipedia: TThe mountain's highest summit is Aiguille du Dru (also the Dru or the Drus; French, Les Drus) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. It is situated to the east of the village of Les Praz in the Chamonix valley. "Aiguille" means "needle" in French.

Grande Aiguille du Dru (or the Grand Dru) 3,754 m

Another, slightly lower sub-summit is:

Petite Aiguille du Dru (or the Petit Dru) 3,733 m.

The southwest "Bonatti" pillar and its eponymous climbing route were destroyed in a 2005 rock fall.^[2]^[3]

At 3,286 m (10,781 ft), Mount Baker Stratovolcano is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a sub-peak of Mount Rainier, and Shastina, a sub-peak of Mount Shasta, are not counted.

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