Landslides May Cause Large Waves on Crater Lake
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Many park visitors descend to Crater Lake along the Cleetwood
trail, from whence they may travel to Wizard Island and around the lake on tour
boats operated by Crater Lake Lodge. Four tour boats and a NPS research boat are
on the lake. Structures used for boat maintenance and to house the boats during
the winter are located on Wizard Island. These facilities, and the people who
use them, would be at risk if there were a major disturbance of the lake
surface. An event that could result in such a disturbance would be failure of
part of the caldera wall causing a rapidly-moving landslide or rock fall into
the lake or beneath its surface and which could result in one or more large
waves that would travel rapidly across Crater Lake and impact its shore.
Landslides or rock falls could be triggered within the caldera by earthquake
shaking.