The West Coast is home to an 800-mile chain of 13 volcanoes, from Washington state's Mount Baker to California's Lassen Peak. They include Mount St. Helens, whose spectacular 1980 eruption in the Pacific Northwest killed dozens of people and sent volcanic ash across the country,
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1) Hawaii is not a part of the Ring of Fire 2) One expert quoted in the piece says: “These are isolated systems”, meaning an eruption in one location does signal impending doom elsewherepic.twitter.com/vwC57k5VNt
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Why? The Hawaiian hotspot (mantle plume) is not connected to the Ring of Fire subduction zones.
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this volcano is active for more years and these people have seen it all.
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