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.
The Indians in the area had a saying, when little sister talks(Mt St Helens), big sister answers(Mt Rainier). They are a hundred miles apart or so, and can be seen with the naked eye in the same horizon.
Gee, all this focus on St. Helen's and Rainier .. so what is Mt. Baker, chopped liver?
My mother has a view of Baker - she says it steams occasionally. ;^)
It is an interesting subject. I guess they can be excused sort of, because in modern history, nothing like it had ever happened. You know, people and mountains, "It sure is pretty! Let's get something to eat", etc.
I've passed by Shasta a few times. You can see rocks there that have been blasted out of the mountain almost to the Oregon border. Forty and fifty miles away.
And not little itty bitty rocks!
If she wakes up with a bad attitude, as all beautiful women do on occasion, kiss Sacramento goodbye.
Baker just doesn't have the history the others do... She'll wake up eventually, though...
How many local NW folks were around for teh Columbus Day Storm in '62 or'63?
It was the biggest storm to hit North America, hands down.
Ok I am pretty uninformed on this...But what is up with Mt. Constitution? Does that look normal?
lastest webcam shot of MSH show the cause of the tremors...BIG FLY...
For the brief moment it was up, there was a bug on the camera lens. I wonder if the quakes are the reason it keeps going down?
Actually California is rising, up out of the sea. Looks like your Arizona acreage will remain worthless.
Hey, start on of those lizard resorts for pet lizards!
LOL!
That was not a fly, it was Mothra.
I don't think it's a volcano - is it? I Could be wrong, though...
Mon Mothra? (Wrong movie...)
If anyone is interested, here is info from when Lake Missoula burst, causing a huge wave that went over the whole state.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/description_lake_missoula.html
My hubby used to live near Mt. Ranier and he refers to it as "my mountain" because he could see it out of his bedroom window.
He wants to move back there. Maybe we just postpone that a while!
I wasn't even born yet, but I found this interesting page about it: Terrible Tempest of the 12th.
Parts of it are rising. But the central valley is a rift valley. The Baja peninsula will keep growing.
California will eventually be split down the middle.
Well, now the camera is back in business and the fog is gone. It looks like water is visible in the steam at the bottom of the picture.
Yup. I studied that pretty extensively in my soils classes at WSU.
Created the Channeled Scablands and deposited all the silt that is now being blown out over the Palouse.
Don't think we need to worry about that happening again anytime soon though.
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