Mount St Helens steam cloud (Update: Second eruption imminent; area evacuation reported)

Siegfried

[Siegfried]

Steam cloud just spotted -- Noon PDT from Mount St. Helens

More when I get some news over news feeds

[Siegfried]

Channel 8 reporter on scene now reporting black cloud. Still fairly small size.

[Fatalis]

Wow Is Mt. Ranier still active too?

[Izzy Dunne]

Here's a LIVE image (every 5 minutes):

[Bikers4Bush]

Nothing yet on the web cam that I can see.

[Siegfried]

Ash cloud will be heading toward Portland Oregon, with the wind in its current direction.

Channel 8 reporter estimates 15k feet height, but still fairly small size cloud from pics on TV.

[r9etb]

Nearly all of the Cascades volcanoes are active, and most have erupted at least once during the time humans have been in the region.

[MineralMan]

Well, the magnitudes of the earthquake swarm at MSH are going up. The last few have been 3.0 or better. Run away! Run away!

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Steam eruption?

[Bikers4Bush]

Whoa, I'm still looking at the picture prior to this one and there is essentially nothing there. This is wild.

[So Cal Rocket]

Thar she blows!

[ValerieUSA]

Look again -- it's the real thing.

[jwalburg]

Mt. St. Helen's web cam

For some reason, it is giving me trouble right now. Maybe too many hits.

[LikeLight]

Web cam is already smoked.

[Veto!]

Thar she blows! Steam followed by dark plume of smoke and ash. No sound. Plume heading north by northwest. Watching local news, scientists say this could go on for days.

[Fatalis]

I know that but there was a post at FR the other night about increased activity under Ranier too.

[Hank Rearden]

Do we need to evacuate everyone from Floriduh again?

[Izzy Dunne]

There's a big difference between the 12:04 pic and the 11:59 one.

I'm using GeekTool to keep the webcam on my desktop - I see a dark plume

[Strategerist]

Wow Is Mt. Ranier still active too?

Mount Rainier is NOT active and has NEVER been active during this Mt. St. Helens swarm or any time remotely recently.

The quakes at Mt. St. Helens during the swarm simply became strong enough to register at the Mt. Rainier seismographs (and the Mt. Hood ones, and basically every one in Western Washington.)

Multiple people pointed this out in replies to that horrible thread about Mt. Rainier becoming "active" started by whoever the spectacularly clueless person was that didn't understand how seismometers work but it's clear a lot of people didn't bother to read all of the replies on that thread.

[mewzilla]

She's having a hissy.