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.
A new super volcano? I certainly hope not, the WOT is lost if a new US super volcano erupts. On the bright side, taxes will go down alot.
As long as we don't drift towards Washington. I hate never ending, dark cloudy days.
ping
Mount St. Helens update: Officials at the U.S. Geological Survey news briefing said scientists expect to see a moderate eruption spewing ash, a steam explosion, or lava flow in the crater of Mount St. Helens possibly sometime in the next month. They also said Secretary of Interior Gale Norton is coming to Washington state on Saturday, to get a closer look at the volcano.
http://www.kgw.com
They were saying "small to moderate". Now it's just moderate within a month. Some scientists are saying today or tomorrow.
volcano cam offline again. Damn Fly!!
"I'm Sheriff John Bunnell..."
Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants.
Use goggles and wear eyeglasses instead of contact lenses.
Use a dust mask or hold a damp cloth over your face to help breathing.
Do not run car or truck engines. Driving can stir up volcanic ash that can clog engines and stall vehicles. Moving parts can be damaged from abrasion, including bearings, brakes, and transmissions.
http://www.angelfire.com/ga/mrsweather/century3.html
This link describes it a bit better.
I've got a feeling that the fly is about to be blown to Kingdom Come! I wish somebody there would get out the flyswatter.
It's Bush's fault.
You are correct. See #91.
Lahar
Lahar is an Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water that originates on the slopes of a volcano. Lahars are also referred to as volcanic mudflows or debris flows. They form in a variety of ways, chiefly by the rapid melting of snow and ice by pyroclastic flows, intense rainfall on loose volcanic rock deposits, breakout of a lake dammed by volcanic deposits, and as a consequence of debris avalanches
From the USGS Online Glossary
Very interesting page about the Columbus Day storm. I was in Olympia, but too young to remember it. My parents moved us all in with friends who had a woodburning stove so we could eat, because the power was out for days. The hurricane force windstorm was totally unexpected.
Yep.
Hurricanes in the Liberal precincts in Florida. Volcanic eruptions in the Liberal sectors of WA. Earthquakes in CA.
It's all a diabolical plan for Bush to wip out the Liberal populations in our country before Nov. 2nd! LOL
No joke. I'm at a high enough elevation (I think), but I'd have a front row seat when it takes out the valley below me along the White River.
I lived in Bellingham. It seems to me that it took us about 20 minutes to get to Mt.Baker and maybe 30 minutes to get to the Canadian border. Of course my memory could be off by a little bit since I lived there for just the one year and that was,...hem...24 years ago.
I think I get . . . weary . . .
of undue adulation of EXPERTS.
Your "key word" is "explosive." In the old literature that term would have been used in relation with Vesuvius, Mt. Pele, and Karkatoa. Since the Lassen eruption, and the pioneer/Indian stories about the other Cascade eruptions suggest a much less violent type, you could very well be right.
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