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.
Unless you believe the laws of physics do not apply, you would be hard pressed to explain a physical relationship at that distance (for instance Japan to Hawaii).
Also, Hawaii, like Yellowstone, is related to an upper mantle "hot spot." The Japanese earthquakes and volcanoes are related to subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. The rate of transport on the Pacific Plate toward Japan (and over the Hawaiian hot spot) is about 10.3 cm/yr. If you postulate a relationship between events in Japan and Hawaii, you need to explain why there are not similar relationships throughout the entire Pacific Plate.
I wonder why they don't have Mt. Adams online at the PNSN site?
As I recall,
the experts were noting the connection between the Japan event and the correlated 'response' in the Hawaii volcano.
But they wanted to shunt it aside as quickly as possible because they didn't have any explanation.
Wish I had the URL to the info. Not a priority to search it out. But as I recall, the geologists did note the connection. It wasn't only laymen.
I still do not think we know as much about basic physics as we think we do, either.
Man is just not as lofty as he thinks he is.
There are still mysteries aplenty even at the level of the basics,
imho.
Do you have a URL for the earthquake map you posted?
I would like to link to it.
Thanks
Close pals near the Geysers in North CA; report increase in geyser rumblings over past week.
At 3:20 in the morning, I couldn't possibly begin to think of an answer!
If you have a link or reference, I would be glad to look at it. For now, I'm outta here.
Go to the sites he has linked to. They are all legitimate sites. You can find information on all of the latest seimic activity anywhere in the world.
These are the links with the laboratorys all over the world and at major universities.
Besides, isn't it always better to be safe than sorry? You can check all of his information out yourself by also going to google of any search engine and just type in earthquake.
ping
ping
"Eearthquakes, in divers places."
Thanks for the graphs, now I see clearly now..
Eliminate Seattle and west King County and we're really not that bad :-)
Run kalifornia run!
Has anyone asked the infallible question yet? Is this Bush's fault?
When did St. Helens go to level 3? Do you have a link?
It sounds like she's about to start oozing ay time now.
Without having read this entire thread, If no one has mentioned, that last graphic looks like John Kerry's EKG when he reads the latest election polls.
You guys are west of the Volcano, and prevailing winds blow east, so you should be ok if there some action, right?
Have you seen this yet?
Be Ever Vigilant!
The sites Datura is linking to are all legitimate.
The problem is he COMPLETELY misinterpreted the information on all of them.
THERE IS CURRENTLY NO SEISMIC ACTIVITY AT MT. RAINIER WHATSOEVER.
The quakes at Mt. St. Helens are increasing in magnitude, and since Mt. Rainier is fairly close to Mt. St. Helens, they're beginning to register at the Mt.Rainier monitoring sites (and also at Mt. Hood to a slightly lesser extent).
There's a lot of neat raw science data on the internet but people need to be responsible about bothering to learn something about interpreting it before they run off making silly alarmist posts.
It is pretty interesting and important that the quakes at Mt. St. Helens are increasing in magnitude however.
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