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The United States has a lot of volcanoes! But unlike the rest of the world, its volcanoes have been mostly quiet in recent years outside of Alaska's Aleutian Arc and Kilauea in Hawaii. This has left major population centers on the west coast (specifically Seattle and Portland) feeling much safer than they probably are. At some point, Mount Rainier, Mount Hood and Mount St Helens (again) will blow... and the impacts to both the Seattle and Portland metropolitan regions will be severe!

In today's video, we're going to dive into the geography of volcanoes in the United States, the history of volcanic eruptions, why Mount Rainier is considered to be the country's most dangerous volcano, and why the Rocky Mountains don't really seem to have many volcanoes despite being such a large and prominent mountain range.

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