California Volcanoes: The Threat Is Real

CALIFORNIA -- Geologists around the world, including in California. are keeping an eye on volcanoes after Hawaii's Kilauea volcano erupted last week. In the Golden State, California is home to several volcanoes, three of which are considered a high threat.

A Sacramento Bee story reported the three volcanoes listed as a "high threat" are Mount Shasta, Mount Lassen and Long Valley.

"The threat is real," said Margaret Mangan of the California Volcano Observatory in an interview with the Sacramento Bee. "The potential for another volcanic eruption in the state of California is on the order of one in 100 to about one in a couple thousand in any given year."

.S. Geological Survey California Volcano Observatory lists 16 "young" volcanoes as low threat to very high threat throughout the state.

"The number of volcanic eruptions within the state of California in just the last thousand years are about the same as the large, damaging earthquakes on the San Andreas Fault," Mangan said in the interview.

Watch the full interview here.

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