>> 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.
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Did you know that the state of
Washington has several "active" volcanoes? One of these
volcanoes is Mount Baker. A future eruption could affect a number of
towns, including Deming, Hamilton, and Nooksack. This video covers
the recent eruptions from this volcano, and states the general hazard
which it poses in the future. This video was made by a geologist who
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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.
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Attached is a recording
made in Sherman Crater, the active crater at Mount Baker. The
audio was made by Michael Dyrland during a gas sampling trip by
volunteers with Mount Baker Volcano Research Center [MBVRC]. You
can hear the roar of the gas as it escapes from a few of the
hundreds if not thousands of fumaroles [gas vents], and bubbling,
boiling water from tiny hotsprings. After St. Helens, Sherman
crater is the hottest place in the Cascade volcanoes; even in
winter there is bare ground at 9500' due to the hot ground,
Sulphur gases and water vapor. MBVRC is an all-volunteer
nonprofit organization that raises funds in support of volcano
research at Mount Baker and informs the public via presentations
about Mount Baker eruption history and hazards. Links to video
taken in the crater are posted on the MBVRC website:
http://mbvrc.wordpress.com/baker-facts/
Every
year MBVRC volunteers climb the glacier and enter the crater to
collect gas samples on behalf of US Geological Survey's volcano
monitoring efforts. - Dave Tucker Research Associate, Geology
Department Filmed By: Michael Dyrland 2nd Camera: Charlie Martin
Our group of nine climbers summitted Mt Baker in Washington's North Cascades mountain range. Near the summit, we stopped for a break at which time I videotaped and recorded the sound eminating from its crater.
The hissing sound originates from the crater whereas the roaring sound is the wind.
This south-east flank has the Serman Fumeroles
Steph Abegg sent us several aerial views into Sherman Crater taken on February 26. John Scurlock piloted the plane. The photos show once again that even in the depths of winter, fumarolic heat flow is sufficient to keep a fair amount of the talus and rock in the fumarole fields bare of snow.
In the late 1990s I flew my son around the top of Kulshan / Mount Baker. He and I smelled the Sulphur coming up from the Sherman Crater, on the south-east flank. He smelled it, but seems to have forgotten all about it; or just doesn't make the connections between seismic activity a volcanism. Kulshan / Mount Baker is part of the Cascadia Volcanic Arc. Denial is such an amazing human trait.
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