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 Survey (USGS), the 2.3 magnitude quake is the largest in the current swarm, which began early Tuesday morning. Scientists on Thursday said more than 334 small earthquakes have been recorded since then, making it the most significant earthquake event at Mount Rainier since 2009.
“At its highest rate, there were several earthquakes per minute,” Holly Racine-Weiss with the Cascades Volcano Observatory told FOX 12 this week. She emphasized, however, that there is no indication of an impending eruption…