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.
Like Mt. St. Helens, the magma will not flow out of the crater on eruption. The magma in the volcanoes in the PNW is thick and barely oozes out unlike the fiery Pacific island ones. But the resulting ash/dust storm wil be tremendous!
up the kazoo
Kazoo??
On the maps it is called a Wazoo.