ExtraNoise

Thank you so much for doing this guys. I have a question that was nagging me last night trying to get to sleep:

You've already touched on volcanoes not erupting, but I'm curious if there's any concern for the Really Big One to trigger a shift of the glaciers on Mt. Rainier (or any of the Cascade peaks) that could cause massive lahars?

The article mentioned nothing about it, and I'm hoping its no concern, but after growing up in Orting, Washington, where we heard that a lahar could happen at any time and all it would take is some shifting on the mountain, a big earthquake turns my blood cold.

This is helpful, thank you. The sound the lahar warning system makes is pretty terrifying.

I'm surprised the article didn't talk about this since it was playing up the secondary-disasters so much. Once the lahar happens, its a race against time to find higher ground and thousands of people (many of who might be injured or impaired from such a big quake) will have to drop everything and get out as quickly as possible. There are only so many roads out. It's going to be a disaster in its own right.

Thanks for answering!