Those high-voltage lines over Mount Shasta and Medicine Lake. And then the natural gas pipelines – those go over our volcanoes in Northern California, too.

The same goes for the Medicine Lake volcano about 30 miles northeast of Mount Shasta. Water boils in a geothermal spring in the Long Valley Caldera.

Medicine Lake Volcano + Mt. Hoffman Medicine Lake Volcano is a large shield volcano, which don’t look like the stereotypical tall and conical volcanoes.

Three others are considered high threat: the Clear Lake Volcanic Field which includes Mt. Konocti, the Medicine Lake Volcano in Siskiou County, and the Salton Buttes in Southern California.

Three California lawmakers are urging President Biden to protect Medicine Lake Highlands, which the Pit River Nation sees as its ancestral homeland.

Those areas are considered to be at the second-highest risk category, as is Medicine Lake volcano in Siskiyou and Modoc counties.

She said the study presents no new data to support the idea that recent volcanism in the Newberry and Medicine Lake volcanic fields is the result of mantle flowing through channels—instead, the ...

Those areas largely dot Northern California and include Mount Shasta, Medicine Lake volcano, Clear Lake volcanic field, the Long Valley volcanic region, Coso volcanic field and Salton Buttes, per ...