Review of the U.S. Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Prologue 1
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Three months after rumbling back to life and exactly thirty years after the last major eruption in the lower 48 states, Mount Rainier exploded yesterday in a terrifying shower of ash, mud, and lava that took tens of thousands of lives and caused property damage initially estimated at more than 100 billion dollars. The unexpected magnitude of the eruption, which caught civil officials totally unaware, appears to have devastated the economy of a major Pacific gateway, setting the stage for a global financial crisis on a scale similar to that caused by the great Los Angeles earthquakes of 2003.
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military bases. However, as part of the continued downsizing of the federal government in the early 2000s, the VHP changed from a scientific organization focused on research and prediction to a technical organization whose main tasks were printing maps and enforcing federal Review of the USGS's Volcano Hazards Program regulations.
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