The eruptions of 1914-1915 utterly transformed Mount Lassen. A 3-mile area around the peak was renamed, succinctly and accurately, Devastated Area. Even today, there are places where the landscape ...

Before it became Lassen Volcanic National Park, Lassen Peak rocked Northern California with a series of eruptions between 1914 and 1921. On May 30, 1914, a small phreatic eruption (which is when ...

The last major eruption to occur in California was on May 22, 1915, when Lassen Peak threw lava bombs tens of miles from the summit and ash over 300 miles into Nevada. The nation’s first ...

California's last major destructive volcanic eruption came more than a century ago. Lassen Peak underwent a series of eruptions between 1914 and 1917. One explosive eruption in 1915 obliterated a ...

California’s last major destructive volcanic eruption came more than a century ago. Lassen Peak underwent a series of eruptions between 1914 and 1917. One explosive eruption in 1915 obliterated ...