MOUNT RAINIER

LOCATION

• Mount Rainier in in Washington
• Located in the U.S.A

HEIGHT

• Mount Rainier is 14,409 feet

HISTORY OF ERUPTIONS

• Mount Rainier started to grow on top of of the remains of an earlier ancestral Mount Rainier that was active 1-2 million years ago.
• Its last eruption was in 1894.
• It continues to have high-frequency earthquakes.

FACTS

• Geologists believe the mountain was once 16,000 feet but due to mudflows and avalanches, its elevation decreased overtime.
• Its the 5th most popular national park in the United States.
• Mount Rainier is an active volcano so earthquakes are very common.