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For a moment there, I was concerned!
Posted on 07/24/2014 8:04:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Mount Rainier, one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the U.S. and in the world, is widely expected to erupt again.
The only unknown facing scientists is when the massive stratovolcano, 4,392 meters tall and located 87 kilometers southeast of Seattle in Washington state, will finally explode.
Scientists from the United States and Norway recently mapped the electric and magnetic signatures of magma flows beneath Mount Rainier (pronounced “ray-near”). They’ve also discovered a mammoth magma reservoir below the mountain that will fuel any eruption with massive magma flows.
The research found out that magma or fluid molten rock is trapped in a pool some eight kilometers below the peak. The pool seems to be some eight kilometers to 16 kilometers thick and has about the same width. …
(Excerpt) Read more at chinatopix.com ...
A "brink" in geological time can be 10,000 years -- or one day.
Not to be confused with:
For a moment there, I was concerned!
The grant is already there. The University of Utah has set up a “metal detector” type monitoring system for the mountain with the intent of giving advance warning in case of an eruption. Practical Science. Rainier is a very dangerous volcano and the UOU study found a much larger magma pool than expected. Oddly, the magma pool is mostly not directly under the mountain. Similar in that respect to Yellowstone but on a much smaller scale.
The SPA would have been on top of this, but their hard drive crashed.
up the kazoo
Kazoo??
On the maps it is called a Wazoo.
This is why over 97% of the CO2 put into the atmosphere each year comes from nature. Mankind is only responsible for a little over 2%. So even if we cut our CO2 emissions an impossible 100% it would be only a hiccup in the actual CO2 load...
Mount Rainier has had explosive eruptions in the past.
Nobody can predict a volcano’s behavior. Even Kilauea had an explosive eruption back in 1790.
That’s very close to the Japanese word for a volcano, “Kazan”.
You should be concerned anyhow if a major eruption were to occur from either Yellowstone or Mt. Rainier, energy and ash output scaled up appropriately from Mt. St. Helens. Say goodbye to wheat production, barley, dry edible beans, sugar beets, canola, flax, lentils, oats, potatoes, corn, apples, etc., etc., transportation, Seattle and Vancouver ports, power for midwest factories, melting Great Lakes ice cover in the summer and on and on.
No recent geologic indicators point to any activity on Ranier.
Some in Yellowstone but not WA
and the CO2 from that one eruption would probably equal 10,000 X China and USA’s output
Possible Seattle real estate buying opportunity ping!
Meh; so all the socialists and weirdos in Seattle get croaked, so what.
Now, now...there are some of us up here who are neither socialists nor...well....I’m maybe a little weird.
Plus...I’m closer to the mountain than Seattle is.
Vancouver BC is not likely to be much affected, nor is any other west coast port.
There will be no power on the grid for a long time after a major northwest eruption and limited diesel and NG deliveries, either via ship or pipeline. Yes, it will affect all the ports.
oh no! will we still get Mt.Rainier cherries if it blows?
It was a slippery trail and we were close to that roaring river and there would be no getting out of it, if you went in. Thinking back to it now, I'm amazed that our whole family went into it.
And I understand that today that Paradise Glacier Ice Caves are no longer there, which is a shame, because I would have liked to go back there once again.
I remember, when I lived in Portland, OR, back in 1996, that there were cracks in the ice on Mt. Rainier.
I remember the History Channel had their big, old, bad, ‘Mt. Rainier danger, danger, Will Robinson’ shows.
Everybody that lives in the lahar channels, you have been warned.
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