Posted on 03/19/2015 12:20:01 PM PDT by JimSEA
PORTLAND -- The U.S. Geological Survey and the Cascades Volcano Observatory hope to install four volcano monitoring stations on the upper flanks of Mount Hood.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Well, it was a quick death.
Thanks. That’s an excellent article.
“Me too...especially the old guy named Harry Truman who refused to be evacuated.
He stayed until the end.”
I pretty sure he’s still there.
This picture reminds me Woody Harrelson in the movie 2012
He has one huge headstone.
“I pretty sure he’s still there.”
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Set a Bigfoot trap.
Very few of us around here at the time DIDN’T see it “before”. In fact, only blind people could have missed it.
It was hard to miss the "DURING", also. In fact, pieces of the mountain came to us, along with the sound effects.
FReeper Oorang was a lot closer than me.
Last year, my family and I went up there for a day trip. The ranger/volcanologist gave a talk about the eruption. They were monitoring it very closely indeed, and they were looking for a particular gas that volcanoes seem to give off before an eruption (they’ve noticed this gas when Hawaiian volcanoes erupt). They never saw evidence of the gas when St. Helens erupted.
BUT...it turns out they were looking in the wrong place.
Hawaii’s volcanoes don’t have snow, so the gas is evident in the open air. They found out later that the gas they were looking for for was dissolved into the water from the snowmelt coming off the mountain. If they’d noticed it then, the ranger said they likely would have known the mountain was about to blow.
Because of that, they now know to look at the runoff from Cascade volcanoes as a predictor of a possible eruption.
Don’t forget Rainier. Tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of people would be affected if that one went.
Yes, Rainier is the single biggest threat to an urban area and eventually it’s going to to have a large eruption. No doubt.
...they now know to look at the runoff from Cascade volcanoes as a predictor of a possible eruption.
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Thanks for the interesting info. I hadn’t heard about the gas before.
Very interesting. Thanks!
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