USGS/Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington
REPORT:
Volcanic Hazards with Regard to Siting Nuclear-Power
Plants in the Pacific Northwest
-- Hoblitt, R.P., Miller, C.D., and Scott, W.E., 1987,
Volcanic Hazards with Regard to Siting Nuclear-Power Plants in the Pacific
Northwest: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-297
Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Background
- Purpose and scope
- Acknowledgments
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Types and effects of potentially hazardous volcanic events
- Introduction
- Flowage phenomena
- Debris avalanches
- Pyroclastic flows
- Pyroclastic surges
- Volcanic blasts
- Lava flows
- Lava domes
- Lahars
- Floods
- Tephra
- Emission of volcanic gases
- Other hazardous events associated with volcanic activity
- Volcanic seismicity
- Atmospheric shock waves induced by eruptions
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Eruptive history and volcanic-hazards assessment for Cascade volcanoes
- Introduction
- Mount Baker
- Glacier Peak
- Mount Rainier
- Mount Adams
- Mount St. Helens
- Mount Hood
- Mount Jefferson
- Three Sisters
- Newberry volcano
- Crater Lake (Mount Mazama)
- Medicine Lake volcano
- Mount Shasta
- Lassen volcanic center
- Basaltic volcanoes and lava fields of the Cascade Range
- Volcanic-hazard zones for eruptions of Cascade Range volcanoes
- Introduction
- Proximal-hazard zones
- Distal hazard zones for lahars and floods
- Tephra-hazard zones
- Hazard zones for eruptions of basaltic volcanoes and volcanic
fields of the Cascade Range
- General guidelines for evaluating volcanic hazards at proposed sites for
nuclear power plants in the Pacific Northwest
- Introduction
- Evaluation criteria used in previous safety-analysis reports for
nuclear power plant sites
- Guidelines for evaluation of sites in each hazard zone
- Proximal-hazard zones
- Distal lahar- and flood-hazard zones
- Hazard zones for basaltic volcanoes and volcanic fields
- Tephra-hazard zones
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References
- Appendix A: Tables summarizing recent activity of Cascade volcanoes
- Appendix B: Glossary
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