[sagar]

I thought obama would start healing the earth.

[Drango]

Go SEAHAWKS

(and we’re all gonna die)

[dragnet2]

I wonder if we’ll see the plume from San Diego?

[Jack Hydrazine]

[blackdog]

"Could be"

Send more grant money and it "May be". Send us a ten year grant and we'll announce what decade it may explode after the grant money stops flowing.

[RetiredTexasVet]

If they could be a little more exact on the timing or at least a hockey stick graph of possibilities I could avoid traveling in the area.

[Safrguns]

And here i’ve been keeping my eye on Yellowstone...

Chain reaction time?

[Jack Hydrazine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Rainier

[DManA]

Why is a mountain in Wa. a “China Topix”?

[Kenny Bunk]

Notify the EPA.

These volcanoes emit greenhouse gases, smoke, and particulate matter well in excess of permitted emissions. In fact, one good one can emit more bad stuff than all human activity over the past 500 years.

This calls for demonstrations. Got to be stopped.

[hoagy62]

We’ve known THAT for years.

They’ve got sensors, seismographs, and whatnot up the kazoo on that mountain. If anything starts moving underneath, the scientists will know. Now, whether they can interpret the signs in time...that remains to be seen.

One apocryphal story involving Mt. St. Helens ( I learned this from a park ranger/volcanologist while visiting St. Helens)....They know from volcanoes in Hawaii that they give off a certain gas before they erupt. Before the big eruption of May 18, 1980, they were looking for those gases at St. Helens, but they didn’t detect any. They had sensors sniffing the air at the crater on top...but they were looking in the wrong place.

They realized later that the gas they were looking for was seeping up into the ice and snow covering the mountain...and was present in the meltwater coming off the mountain. If they had known this, could it have been possible that a bit of a warning could’ve been given? We’ll never know. What the volcanologist also told me was that since we now know this, we’ll know what to look for at the other volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

[Noob1999]

WOW!

HooRay!

We need not worry about Glubull Warming ever again!!

The Mt. Rainier blowhole will meet up with the Yellowstone Caldera, and human life will no longer feel the pain.

Now, since cockroaches have been living for millions of years, and I’ve been fighting them forever, which little SOB is going to scribble his forefeeler across my mortage document and finally laugh when they take over my house???

Bastards!

[BBB333]

Big deal.

Volcanos blow up. It’s their job.

I lived through St. Helens - it was in interesting. The planets were aligned -— check it out. It was a massive gravity pull on the day it erupted.

None of us will ever escape the reaper.

Between then and now, please try to have fun.

[jocon307]

Eh, this could be handled, but if that think in yellowstone blows my impression is WE ALL GONNA DIE!

[right way right]

Bah!
Earthquakes in this region are the main disaster waiting to happen.

[wastedyears]

Heads up if you haven’t heard about this.

[Billthedrill]

I can tell you when it will happen. Seventh game of the World Series, Mariners up 10-2 in the top of the ninth inning, and the SOB will blow and they'll NEVER WIN IT. EVER! Seattle will be under thirty feet of smoking volcanic ash and the beer will still cost seven bucks a cup and the lines to the rest rooms will be out into the concourse.

I am not bitter.

[steve86]

Mount Rainier Could Be On The Brink Of A Monstrous Eruption

A "brink" in geological time can be 10,000 years -- or one day.

[PLMerite]

"Mount Rainier Could Be On The Brink Of A Monstrous Eruption"

Not to be confused with:

For a moment there, I was concerned!

[Zathras]

No recent geologic indicators point to any activity on Ranier.

Some in Yellowstone but not WA