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What would it look like if the Cascades volcanoes erupted?

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Slideshow Icon1 of 2Is Mount Baker coming for us? Or Rainier? Or St. Helens...again?
Credit: KUOW Photo/Kara McDermott

Have you been watching the videos from Hawaii — molten lava eating up telephone poles and cars — and then turning towards that big range of volcanoes we have in our own backyard?

Could that happen here? We talk to Seth Moran, scientist-in-charge at the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, to see if we should live in fear of Baker, Rainier, St. Helens...

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