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The Cascade Mountains in Oregon and Washington (including Mount St. Helens) are created by the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate under the North American Continental Plate.

See Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_Plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Volcanoes

Essentially all of the volcanoes in the Cascade Range are still considered active. Mt St. Helens is considered the most active with the large eruption in 1980, followed by numerous small "cone building" eruptions.

The Three Sisters have had major lava flows every few thousand years, and Mt. Mazama had a major eruption about 7,000 years ago followed by numerous small cone-building eruptions. They could all have future eruptions.

The following images are from the above Wikipedia Article, and were originally produced by the USGS and entered into the public domain.



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