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.
LON and SEP are the different station names. LON is for Longmire on Mt Rainier, and SEP is Dome Station at St Helens. (That's on the lava dome in the crater.) June Lake is a new one at St Helens, evidently they just put that one in.
I checked Mt Baker and it was normal, along with Glacier Peak. Some of the stations showed high winds, which looks like constant activity, only smaller.
Thanks for the Yellowstone info - that's the scary one. I can't imagine the results of a 60 mile long caldera going active. Even if it were just lava flow.
The Cascades are different in that they are all stratovolcanoes. That type doesn't have lava flows, they explode. The coulees over by Spokane are from large flows, in fact most of Washington state is covered by them along with central/eastern Oregon. The Missoula floods that carved the Columbia gorge is hard to imagine as well.
Has anyone heard of activity at Mt Shasta or Lassen?
Troll Watch Alert!
An event occurred at 11:39:36 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, September 28, 2004.
The magnitude 2.2 event (a probable quarry explosion) occurred 1 km (0 miles) W of Quarry near Mountain Gate (Shasta Res.), CA .
The hypocentral depth is 2 km ( 2 miles).
this is the only recent thing on Shasta
. . . . or someone who still expects Rather to tell them what is going on.
This is a very wide area folks, which really speaks to the power of what may be happening at St. Helens, and may have other implications. Seeing Rainier respond so well to St. Helens troubles me a little.
St. Helens is now at Volcano Watch level 3. Level 4 is eruption, so it is looking more and more likely.
Yeah, that's it! Newbie go watch CBS, they will have the "truth" about this!
Is level 4 the warning for eruption or is eruption itself?
Its funny but neither KATU (Channel 2) KGW (Channel 8) nor The Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (USGS) have even mentioned Mt. Rainier....does it have any bearing that KOIN is a CBS Affiliate???
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html
Yes, level 4 is the actual eruption I believe.
Is there to be a Newbie eruption tonight?
We're DOOMED!!
no, you were right...a level three....
‘‘We're in a position right now where we could have a small event to a moderate event happening without any warning,'' USGS seismologist Cynthia Gardner said.
They raised the mountain's eruption advisory from the second level — ‘‘volcanic unrest'' — to the third level — ‘‘volcano advisory'' — out of four, which means the USGS began notifying more state and federal agencies of a possible eruption, though no human life appeared to be threatened. The USGS asked the National Weather Service to be ready to track an ash plume using its radar system.
Do you have any of the charts from when St Helens blew in 80 (or was it 81) as compared to rainier? I am not convinced that the rainier activity is necessarily anything more than the kind of response one would expect since Helen's is going so strong....It is my understanding from the USGS guys (and I am not making a claim of reliablity for them) that Rainier doesn't seem to be anywhere close to becoming active
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Tom Daschle is saddened.
Bill Gates is selling.
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Thanks. This is interesting.
Been quite a few lately, gee, wonder why?
Could be someone who hasn't been weened off of the nightly follies yet.
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