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Active and Potentially Active
Volcanoes in Oregon


-- Excerpt from: Wright, T.L., and Pierson, T.C., 1992,
Living With Volcanoes: The U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1073, 57p.

Active and Potentially Active Volcanoes in Oregon
Volcano Eruption type(s) Number of eruptions in past 200 years Latest activity (in years before present or year(s) A.D.) Remarks
Mount Hood Ash, dome 2? 1865 Occasional seismic swarms
Mount Jefferson Ash, lava 0 More than 50,000 years ago Debris flows in 1934, 1955; young basaltic flows in nearby area
Three Sisters Ash, lava 0 950? Debris flows in this century
Crater Lake Lava, ash, dome 0 4,000 years ago Largest known eruption from Cascade Range volcano. Catastrophic, caldera-forming eruption 7,000 years ago; post-caldera lava and domes
Newberry Crater Ash, lava 0 600 Latest eruption was obsidian flow


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03/17/06, Lyn Topinka