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.
I sure don't recall such in the last 10 years.
The colored lines are times 10 minutes after the hour, twenty minutes, etc
Going to be interesting to see how fast such 'options' or funds run out!
NOT in a serious quake.
There was a thread hereon recently . . . or was it an email?
Documenting a very quality expert's experiment in Turkey.
Those who ducked and covered were squashed to the thickness of their bones.
Those manneqins which were placed in potential voids beside beds, major pieces of furniture etc. survived. He also found that in newspaper offices etc. and other places with significant piles of paper--that paper did not compress and lying on the floor beside paper piles would protect as well. He recommended curling up in the fetal position to minimize exposure.
Excellent observation and question, imho.
Great observations and questions.
THANKS TONS AND PLEASE
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.
BTW, to any and all--I trust, pray, hope that you're clear and ready to meet God if you live in a hazard area!
I hope you and all out there are o.k.! I am in Indiana and didnt really look at PNSN until Monday. The way the colored lines come up to a certain point and stop looks like it has been cut off. Does this only show certain types of waves or strengths?
Just out of curiousity, would the passing of that 3 mile wide asteroid within 4 lunar distances of the earth have any measurable gravitational effect that would cause a tidal effect here that would increase the likelyhood of earthquakes or is it really far too small an object for that.
Thanks.
They are truncated. I think the cutoff point is about a magnitude one.
As soon as this all started happening, I checked the Rainier graphs and saw nothing unusual. So the fact that it is showing up now, very strongly, suggests that the quakes are much stronger. Looks like St. H is getting almost continuous mag 3-4's or so.
It's starting to look much worse than it did earlier.
It is likely however, that the stations at Rainer are picking up the St. Helens activity. Rainer is the next big Cascade volcano to the north (about 50 miles +/-)
HMMMMMMM
BAKER, GLACIER, RANIER, ST HELENS, HOOD, SHASTA AND LASSEN
all blew about 200 years ago!
Hot time in the old town tonight time!
And to think, that's likely to be minor compared to what's headed our way in our lifetime.
I hope it's not rushing to it this time around. Don't feel it is. FWIW!
How far is Baker from . . . Bellingham and such places on the Canadian boarder?
Thanks for clearing that up. If I am reading it right, the space between two verticle lines bisecting a horizontal line is 1 minute. If that's right some of these are 45 seconds or so in duration.
Probably not low level swarms, would you have?
I didn't typically feel 2.0-3.0 quakes in Taipei very often.
SOBERING.
THX.
They are the same events. The events on the Longmire chart are delayed a bit. Very close events at St. Helens show up as single events of less magnitude at Rainier due to dampening and echoes. I have both up on my screen right now.
Nothing in California or Yellowstaone are remotely related to St. Helens and the purported "activity" at Rainier.
Good question, imho.
Yes. The vertical line spacing is one minute intervals. Six colored lines per hour.
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