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Originally posted by radiant_obsidian
Is there any kind of information about the blast radi of a large eruption from Rainier?
Originally posted by Simcity4Rushour
I take it by eberyones post that rainer can have a larg ereption.
now Im dont know much about rainer but have read some on other super volcanios (talking cones here not yellow stone
and even the biggest would hardly destroy even the state its in let along the intire country .
Originally posted by Hellmutt
Originally posted by radiant_obsidian
Is there any kind of information about the blast radi of a large eruption from Rainier?
Here is some bedtime reading for you...
Mount Rainier Could Blow -- Or Worse ...
What you mean with this "blast"? Literally blast of explosion or pyroclastic flows?
Originally posted by radiant_obsidian
Is there any kind of information about the blast radi of a large eruption from Rainier?
www.uwsp.edu...
Reconstructing Mount Mazama is inherently speculative. A number of geologists have speculated that the volcano had two summits since the drainages on the southeast side of the lake do not radiate from the same center as those on the west. The reconstruction above starts by reconstructing contours around the lake rim and then building upward using a typical slope for a stratovolcano. The reconstruction above shows a single, possibly dissected or landslide-collapsed peak, but it's not hard to picture a main cone to the west and a lower parasitic cone to the east. The reconstruction below shows a two-summit interpretation. The height is about 3400 meters or just over 11,150 feet, pretty close to the value estimated above. A slightly different slope could easily raise or lower that by 300 meters (1000 feet). Mazama was definitely no Shasta or Rainier but it could easily have been equal to Mount Lassen, Mount Hood or Mount Adams.