A snowcapped backdrop to Seattle and Puget Sound, Mount Rainier is a slumbering giant that last erupted in the 1890s.

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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 ...