Could be an exciting trip is right heh heh heh
Posted on 09/30/2004 12:02:30 AM PDT by datura
It's been there since right at sundown. I wonder if more media have pulled up and they are running out of parking spaces.
Chad I am never going to get the picture of that Armidillo up your pant leg out of my head.
I hope you are proud of yourself that one human in this big world has that image stuck in their brain like a tune that won't stop playing. : )
You are, of course, most welcome ;0)
I wouldn't sweat it too much. Our area is long overdue for a huge earthquake anyway... Not much you can do about it.
Personally, I worry more about Glacier Peak than any of the other ones - it's pretty darn close to where I live, and it has had lahars in the past that reached the ocean. Other than St. helens, it's the most dangerous one we have, yet so few people realize it.
However, I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it, and will go on with my life the same as any other day.
So come on up to our happy fun land, and enjoy it!!
Could be an exciting trip is right heh heh heh
Have you seen the article charting weather events as an overlay on the timeline of significant events concerning Israel?
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It looks like they had another big event around 10:30 Thurs local time.
Got a question for you.
If Rainier was doing some shaking of it's own and was also picking up events from Mt. St. Helens, how do you differentiate between the two?
The times they occur. Plus, an event from St. Helens that is picked up on Rainier is "fuzzied" because of echoes and dampening. Plus, any significant effect is also recorded on other sensors.
I don't think there is anything happening on Rainier. Except low level background stuff.
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Thank you for the Ping! Rainier is a nightmare waiting to a happen. I believe that there has been a significant increase in avalanche activity on the glaciers there in the last few years as well.
They've improved the use of COSPEC. This is a pretty good paper about how it was used to monitor Pinatubo:
Monitoring Sulfur Dioxide Emission at Mount Pinatubo
"Correlation spectrometer measurements of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission were an important contributor to successful prediction of the June 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Our first measurement in mid-May (500 tonnes per day) indicated that unrest involved intrusion of magma; a tenfold increase in SO2 output by late May implied that (1) magma was rising and (or) that (2) a hydrothermal system that absorbed volcanic gases was being boiled and thus removed, allowing more SO2 to reach the surface. A sudden, short-lived drop of SO2 output to 260 tonnes per day on June 5, even as seismicity was increasing, may have been caused by plugging or sealing of magma and fractures through which gas was escaping. On June 7, emissions rose again as a new dome was extruded, and our last preparoxysmal measurement on June 10 was more than 13,000 tonnes per day."
In short: They'll know before it blows.
"Whole lot of shakin' goin' on!"
Yup. I'm pretty certain of that. Now, if we can just keep people from getting all worked up and panicked, and get them more like my youngest daughter who, this morning before I left, said to me "I hope Mount St. helens erupts, because I've never seen one before..." LOL
You think Rainier is a nightmare waiting to happen? Wait until either Baker or Glacier Peak goes - Lahars from Glacier Peak have the potential to remove Darington, Arlington, Mount Vernon, and Burlington from the map... And Baker? That baby has more Ice/Snow/Glaciers than Glacier Peak, St. Helens, & Mount Adams combined... I'd put it on par with Rainier.
We can worry about this stuff all day long, but in the end, the mountains are gonna do what it is they do, and there ain't a thing we can do about it ;0)
Yup it is in a couple of baggies, I picked it up on the Long Beach Peninsula, after the memorial day weekend eruption, a couple weeks after the big event.
I live in Poulsbo now, when the first eruption happened I lived on Southernb Kitsap Peninsula in the toolies, I actually heard the eruption when it happened.
I am flyin gout of SEa Tac Tuesday AM and th eplane will be heading south. Hopefully can get a peek out my window , think I will try to get my seat on the left side of plane.
thank you
Darrington is a very cute place. It reminds me of a smaller version of Ouray, Colorado. But, those peaks are relatively safe.
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