Brent Okita has summited Mount Rainier more than 600 times. That’s twelve thousand, six hundred hours on the famous landmark. And given that summiting season is only four months long, that means the ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Mount Rainier’s ongoing earthquake swarm intensified Wednesday with he strongest quake yet: a magnitude 2.3 event recorded beneath the summit. According to the U.S. Geological ...

Brent Okita did something recently that’s not likely to happen again. The 55-year-old Enumclaw, Wash., resident became the second person to make 500 trips to the 14,411-foot summit of Mount Rainier.

A swarm of hundreds of small earthquakes has been detected rumbling deep below Mt. Rainier in Washington State early Tuesday morning, though geologists stress there is no cause for concern. The quakes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have recorded the "largest" earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier in Washington state since 2009, the U.S. Geological ...

WASHINGTON, USA — A "swarm" of small earthquakes near the summit of Mount Rainier Tuesday is no cause for concern, according to local officials. The United States Geologic Survey (USGS) says the ...

First things first — everything is normal. Mount Rainier is not about to erupt. Today, at least. (The future is another story.) Now that that’s out of the way, the Cascades Volcano Observatory with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An active volcano, Mount Rainier has erupted thousands of times during its relatively young life. Photograph by Philip Kramer, ...

On May 9, mountain guide Simon Kearns stepped onto the asphalt at Paradise in Mount Rainier National Park — just 3 hours, 43 minutes and 52 seconds after setting off earlier that morning.