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Mount Scott is a small stratovolcano and a so-called parasitic cone on the southeast flank of Crater Lake in southern Oregon. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is approximately 420,000 years old. [ 3 ] Its summit is the highest point within Crater Lake National Park , and the tenth highest peak in the Oregon Cascades . [ 6 ]
Mackenzie, Muschalik & Broesche (2021) provided comments on the 2018 report in three separately authored sections. [4] Broesche believes that Yellowstone should be ranked higher due to the size of the volcano and the popularity of Yellowstone National Park, and Muschalik considers Mount Rainier to be just as dangerous as Kilauea due to its proximity to large population centers in Washington.
The Cascadia subduction zone is a 960 km (600 mi) fault at a convergent plate boundary, about 100–200 km (70–100 mi) off the Pacific coast, that stretches from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to Northern California in the United States
The team completed a detailed map of more than 550 miles of the subduction zone, down to the Oregon-California border.
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The Zone of Death is the 50-square-mile (130 km 2) area in the Idaho section of Yellowstone National Park in which, as a result of a reported loophole in the Constitution of the United States, a person may be able to theoretically avoid conviction for any major crime, up to and including murder.
Wildfire danger rises in a hurry in Oregon. Coming into this fire season, Oregon was in decent shape. For the first time since 2017, June was drought-free in the Beaver State, according to the U.S ...
There is a hypoxic zone covering the coasts of Oregon and Washington [52] that reached peak size in 2006 at an area of over 1,158 square miles. [53] Strong surface winds between April and September cause frequent upwelling that results in an increase of algae blooms, rendering the hypoxia a seasonal occurrence. [ 54 ]