Why are there no volcanoes in the Midwest or East coast?

Cheryl E. Powell from Chesapeake, Virginia found this answer oat unknowncountry.com We're waiting to see if Mount St. Helens will erupt again in Washington State, but we never hear about volcanic activity on the East Coast of the U.S.There's a scientific reason for this Sally Harris writes that the kinds of geological conditions there don't support volcanic activity. Geoscientist R.J. Tracy says, "The active margin of North America is its western margin, and only the northwestern segment of it currently has the right conditions to produce volcanoes like Mount St.Helens.

The interior of North America and the East coast lie far from any currently active plate boundaries and therefore are not locales where volcanism can occur At least one of the following conditions must be present for volcanic activity: "Divergent margins," which are places where the Earth's plates move apart; "Convergent margins," where the Earth's plates collide and one dips below the other forming a volcanic arc that may become active; or "Hot spots" in the Earth's mantle There is evidence from rocks in Virginia that volcanoes erupted in the area about 200 million years ago I was just researching this, and there are Volcanoes back there, they are just much older than the ones out west. There is a range of eroded volcanoes in N.H. , a Volcanic outcropping in N.J., and I think it's Birmingham, Al. That sits right atop an ancient volcano.

Also I've rea that the Yellowstone hot spot used to be under Ga.

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