Posted on 09/21/2017 6:46:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
Mount Rainier is seen from a helicopter flying south of the mountain and west of Yakima in this 2013 photo. Scientists recorded a recent quake swarm under the mountain. (Elaine Thompson / The Associated Press)
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More than 20 small quakes have struck under the volcano in the past week, a rate thats higher than usual but not unprecedented.
Nearly two dozen small earthquakes have rattled Mount Rainier over the past week, but seismologists say theres no cause for worry.
In the past, these swarms last a couple of days to a week or so and then die out, said Paul Bodin, of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network at the University of Washington.
The first of the 23 quakes struck on Sept. 11 near the volcanos summit. The largest of the quakes registered magnitude 1.6.
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LOL! Then I guess one should be worried about Globull Warming.....
Even so, there were hundreds of small earthquakes between March 16th and the 27th. I just don’t think we are there with Rainier.
I get those after eating too many 911 Atomic Wings
Not if you had a modicum of common sense...
Ongoing scientific climate data collection now show the global warming theory that Al Gore promoted to be largely incorrect.
How else do these theories get debunked other than through scientific method?
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