Mount Rainier’s newly-approved lahar detection upgrades will have a quirk: A couple of stations planted right in the likely paths of mudslides.
In other words, researchers will be putting their Mt. Wow and Tahoma Bridge monitoring stations “basically in harm’s way,” U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) volcano seismologist Seth Moran says.
It’s not that they’re eager to lose the stations, Moran said. The idea is inspired by a tabletop exercise he and other scientists did years ago at Mt. Baker.
In their fictional scenario, the researchers realized they could jot down the time when their monitoring stations stopped transmitting due to getting knocked out by lahars, which are volatile
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