Mount Baker CRACKS OPEN - 250,000 Americans On DEATH ZONE Alert!
April 25, 2026
https://youtu.be/1RhR_e1s9LE
Mount Baker is the only volcano in North America whose lahar crosses an international border. A collapse here doesn't just kill Washingtonians — it kills Canadians. And it has almost happened twice in the last 200 years without a single eruption.
Mount Baker, 30 miles east of Bellingham, WA — ranked #14 on the USGS list of America's most dangerous volcanoes. The second most thermally active volcano in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. In March 1975, Sherman Crater's heat flux jumped 10x, fumarole gases screamed out at 268 km/h, and Puget Sound Energy preemptively drained Baker Lake to absorb a possible lahar. Magma intruded, stalled, and is still there — Juliet Crider's gravity survey confirmed 1,800 microgals of trapped mass in the crater. USGS 2024 D-Claw modeling shows a 260-million-m³ Deming-scale lahar reaching Everson in 1 hour 38 minutes, Lynden in 2.5 hours, then bifurcating across the U.S.-Canada border into Abbotsford, British Columbia. The 2021 atmospheric-river flood — not a volcano — already caused $2+ billion in damage on Sumas Prairie. Imagine if it were.
🔴 IN THIS VIDEO
• The March 1975 Sherman Crater heat crisis that almost triggered evacuation
• Juliet Crider's 1,800-microgal gravity signal — proof magma is still there
• The 6,600-year-old Deming Mudflow and the 30-foot lahar deposit under Deming, WA
• USGS 2024 D-Claw simulation — 112 mph initial lahar speed
• The Everson drainage divide — the only U.S. volcanic lahar that crosses into Canada
• 2021 Sumas Prairie flood — a rainstorm, not a volcano, $2+ billion in damage
• Upper Baker Dam and the Lake Whatcom drinking-water supply
• Dave Tucker, Mary Benage, Nate Stevens — the scientists watching Baker
📚 SOURCES
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory — https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-…
USGS SIR 2024-5133 — Middle Fork Nooksack D-Claw lahar simulation
Crider et al. (2008) — Gravity change at Mount Baker
Whatcom County Mount Baker Volcano Action Plan (2019)
Natural Resources Canada — Is Mount Baker a hazard for Canada?
Mount Baker Volcano Research Center (WWU) — mbvo.wwu.edu
Cascade PBS & Salish Current (2025) — Benage hazard-assessment coverage