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The ice cap and glaciers on Ranier is one of the chief concerns should that volcano blow. The eruption will melt the ice which will cause massive flooding. They fear all the homes in the area surrounding the volcano (that includes quite a ways out) will be destroyed.

From what I heard on the news last night, they suspect some sort of activity within the next couple of days. However, they said it is highly unlikely it would be anywhere near the magnitude of the 1980 blast. The last magma activity was in 1986. That was just a swelling, I believe, and then a settling.

My greater concern is that another blast could hasten the shifting of the Cascade fault. That's one earth quake that I don't want to be near to witness. Seattle will be a pile of rubble.

81 posted on 09/27/2004 1:56:16 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)

To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

Yeah, the one time in known history that the Cascade fault shifted, it created that nice Harbor on the coast there..

82 posted on 09/27/2004 1:57:51 PM PDT by Darksheare (Liberalism is political domestic abuse.)

To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

My greater concern is that another blast could hasten the shifting of the Cascade fault. That's one earth quake that I don't want to be near to witness. Seattle will be a pile of rubble.

Which is why I bought earthquake insurance...

84 posted on 09/27/2004 2:02:35 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)

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