Earthquake Reported At Crater Lake National Park

Above, Wizard Island at Crater Lake National Park. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Did you know that Crater Lake in Oregon is still considered to be an active volcano? 

Well, it is. It is also part of the Cascade Range of volcanic peaks which include Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Shasta and Lassen Peak, among others.

Researchers have reported earthquakes this past week, the first since 2015.

According to KTVL:

CRATER LAKE, Ore. — Scientists are excited about the ground rumblings at Crater Lake National Park but it's more academic than any threat to the public. 

On June 9, at approximately 1800 UTC (11 a.m. Pacific) an M 1.3 earthquake occurred under Crater Lake at a depth approximately 2 km below sea level. 

"You're looking at three or four miles down from the surface," Seismologist Wes Thelen said. 

The event was followed by around two dozen aftershocks over the next 12 hours. Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascade Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington poured over the spectrogram and the readings from the four seismometers in the caldera including one on Wizard Island.

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