Posted on 09/30/2004 12:02:30 AM PDT by datura
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While checking the seismographs tonight for the region, it is becoming apparent that Mt. Rainier is also awakening along with Mt St Helens. At first, I had hoped that the seismographs at Mt Rainier were merely picking up the earth movement from St Helens, but the tremors do not correlate.
By checking the charts for St Helens back on the 25th of the month - when the current event began - the buildup is easily seen. There are occasional quakes that are of noticeable strength, while the others are extremely small. Moving forward from the 25th, you can see the intensity grow, as well as the frequency shorten. Well, the same scenario is playing itself out right now under Mt Rainier, especially the Longmire station.
Posted below are the charts showing this growth at St Helens, along with the more current ones from Mt Rainier. If Mt Rainier's activity increases in a manner similar to Mt St Helens, this will be an interesting time indeed for all of this region......
Here is Mt St Helens from the 25th:
And here is St Helens again, from the morning of the 26th:
This is Mt St Helens right now. Constant earth movement......
Alert status for Mt St Helens is now at "3". Now for Mt Rainier. Here's the chart for Rainier from yesterday morning/afternoon:
And this is the current chart for Mt Rainier:
As you can see, the earth is starting to move under this volcano as well. The duration of the quakes under Mt Rainier is longer, and the frequency is longer than at Mt St Helens, but there is obviously something going on here as well. I really want this one to go back to sleep.
Oh dear. Alot of people in the path of a Mt.Ranier explosion.
Even just a lahar would be hell around here.
Oh, my God. Do you have anything on the Old Fathful area?
Haven't seen any recent quake activity for Yellowstone, and yes, Rainier is overdue.
We have a friend in the Orting area and my husband asked him about evacuation plans if Rainier goes and he said the authorities know they can't get everyone out of there. I see Rainier out my windows and I love to look at it. I hope it doesn't act up in my lifetime, and no lives are endangered.
LOL - thanks. How about a Nomex suit?
I remember reading someplace that there is a "buldge" there. If it go's it will be a very bad thing.
I have it on the highest authority that the west coast will soon slip into the sea and given that information I have purchased numerous acres of "worthless" desert in Arizona...
In one way it may be good...lots of relatively low level activity >may< be tempering a bigger event.
Or not...
prisoner6
What are you smoking up there? Some expert on Coast to Coast said that those were normal earthquakes for Mt. Rainier.
He also said the same about Baker, Adams, Hood and a couple others.
Yes, both of the mountains are above the same subduction zone. The Juan de Fuca plate is sliding under the North American one, and the Cascades are basically above the region where that plate becomes molten below us. That's why that last big quake here was so deep - thankfully. The Olympics are their own plate, but I'm not certain about the mechanics of that.
On the other hand....to hedge my bets....I predict a burst of the Seattle Real Estate bubble if Mt. Rainier blows simultaneously with Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Baker.
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Seeing as Moron.org is claiming that a few hurricanes hitting FL is a sign from God, err, Gaia, what would they then make of one or two seismic events in Gore/Kerry WA?
Well, since I check the seismographs daily for Mt Rainier, I can tell you that this is not normal. If it were the spring breakup of the glaciers, I could go along with that. These signals on the chart don't follow the typical shape for ice breaking, either. These are long duration rumbles. If you check the seismographs for the other mountains you listed, you'll see no activity.
Well, I never bought the "rain settling" theory they first coughed up. But you have to agree that Rainier is not near the levels of Mt. St. Helens. They have stopped posting MSH earthquakes by times because it is constantly shaking and the instruments can't determine the locations.
Mt. Rainier must connect to the same underground lava flow right? (I dont know the terminology)
I certainly dont want to see Rainier go...I have too many friends in Puyallup, Lake Tapps, etc It is curious they just had those lahar drills there though
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