Posted on 10/11/2004 10:36:00 PM PDT by djf
Infrared cameras surveying Mt. St. Helens have revealed a large uplifting of new magma into the crater floor. For all intents and purposes, it is now erupting. Radar may reveal any ash clouds that come out, the IR video on the local channel is quite spectacular.
What is the name of the local channel with the fantastic footage?
Volcano Ping
when you say Magma, do you mean lava....? I had read that the ground was 900 degrees earlier today....
Link!
How's the seismic activity?
Thanks a lot, MSH, you could have waited until daylight.
BTT. This certainly beats blowing the top 1300 feet off the mountain.
Is it just me, or have the scientists working that mountain missed every common sense queue and gotten every call wrong since this thing started?
All right, I'll say it - I question the timing of this...
magma=molten rock below the surface / lava=molten rock above the surface ... so, yes!
Pretty low. The quakes were due to the rock fracturing while the magma rose, now that the path is clearer, or at least more clear, the magma has an easier way to the surface. Kinda like that Old Faithful-Metamucil commercial.
It's Bush's fault.
King 5.
it's just the Bush Campaign trying to distract us all from the fact that Kerry's timing was perfect in Reeve's death.
ha, I had a bet about lava...I said it come up and spill around.....
was told by a Washington resident that only happens in Hawaii!
Women and minorities to be particularly hard hit.
Hey, according to the experts, it might be weeks or months despite an immense-superheated bulge in the crater. Everybody knows that a bulging superheated crater pressurized from below by magma is of no great concern. Sheesh the guys keeping tabs on MSH are no better than your average meteorologist.
I think if I was unsure of what was going to happen, I'd err on the side of extreme caution and say, "Hey, uh, bulging lava domes and pressurized magma near the surface could possibly result in bad things, we might want to leave the area for awhile."
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Link to web cam
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