Cascade Range
Posted on 06/29/2002 4:48:08 PM PDT by grimalkin
MOUNT HOOD - Seismologists are keeping a very close watch on Mount Hood today after at least two moderate earthquakes rattled the area.
At 7:36 a.m. an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 shook the Mount Hood area. So far there are no reports of damage or injuries.
Bill Steele of the University of Washington's Pacific Northwest Seismographic Network said the quake was centered about three miles south of the summit of Mount Hood and was about four miles deep.
It was the strongest quake in the area in recent decades, he said, and had been followed by hundreds of small aftershocks.
One of the more significant aftershocks registered 3.8 at 11:49 a.m.
Steele said it was related to the volcanic activity of the mountain but that it did not signal any eruption.
"It is reasonable to expect aftershocks of a magnitude of three or greater" within the next few weeks, he said.
Steele said there have been several groups of quakes around the mountain since the 1970s. "This was stronger than any of those," he said.
"It shook the mobile home, the beds, the floors, but obviously there was no damage," Dale Roberts of Maupin said.
Mark Vincent, general manager at Timberline Lodge ski area on the mountain said the quake registered "a sharp jolt" and a couple of lesser aftershocks.
"If you were sitting you might have felt (the aftershocks) but if you were walking you might not have felt them," he said.
"We checked out the facilities and everything is fine."
A quake of a magnitude of 4 can cause moderate damage in built-up areas. A magnitude of 5 can cause considerable damage.
On May 15 Oregon felt two earthquakes, one measuring 4.3 in the Klamath Falls area and another of a 5.4 magnitude off the coast of Coos Bay.
There were no damage or injury reports from either quake.
Steve Malone of the seismographic network said they were still not sure Saturday whether the Mount Hood earthquake was directly related to volcanic activity or related to the movement of the earth's plates and stresses and strains that caused the May earthquakes and the larger Scotts Mills quake in Oregon's Willamette Valley in 1993.
Those quakes, he said "are run of the mill quakes that occur throughout the Pacific Northwest."
"The Mount Hood quake had some characteristics that make it somewhat different from those but not clearly volcano-related," he said.
"It had some characteristics of both types of events."
BTTT quake-interest list.
NEIC: Near Real Time Earthquake List - Updated as of Sat Jun 29 20:45:07 UTC 2002.
DATE-(UTC)-TIME Latitude Longitude Depth Magnitude Q COMMENTS
2002/06/29 18:49:58 45.34N 121.68W 6.1 3.8 <SEA> WASH-OREGON BDR REG
2002/06/29 14:41:21 45.33N 121.68W 2.7 3.2 <SEA> WASH-OREGON BDR REG
2002/06/29 14:36:04 45.34N 121.69W 6.1 4.5 <SEA> WASH-OREGON BDR REG
Memorial ~ Anniversary of Mt. St. Helens eruption ~ Lots of Cascade links.
The New Madrid Earthquake ~ lots of info here ~ eyewitness accounts, scholarly references, maps and graphics, science, photographs and Indian legend.
This week's prophecy connection: NEW MADRID--WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Things are hot or hotter elsewhere as well. There is a large scale ongoing swarm near Sumatra, Indonesia. Fiji and Vanuatu are active and have some of the deepest quakes. AU is fairly stable, but NZ is on the rim and has lots of current activity and volcanoes. Russia had a major quake yesterday near the rim.
Terah ["station"]>>> Haran ["mountaineer"]>>> Lot ["covering"]
Seismologists are keeping a very close watch on Mount Hood today after at least two moderate earthquakes rattled the area.
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It was the strongest quake in the area in recent decades, he said, and had been followed by hundreds of small aftershocks.
Looks like a Lot of earthquakes are registering at the monitoring stations at Mount Hood.
Main Entry: 1hood
Pronunciation: 'hud
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hOd; akin to Old High German huot head covering, huota guard
Date: before 12th century
1 a (1) : a flexible covering for the head and neck (2) : a protective covering for the head and face b : a covering for a hawk's head and eyes c : a covering for a horse's head; also : BLINDER
2 a : an ornamental scarf worn over an academic gown that indicates by its color the wearer's college or university b : a color marking or crest on the head of an animal or an expansion of the head that suggests a hood
3 a : something resembling a hood in form or use b : a cover for parts of mechanisms; specifically : the movable metal covering over the engine of an automobile c chiefly British : a top cover over the passenger section of a vehicle usually designed to be folded back d : an enclosure or canopy provided with a draft for carrying off disagreeable or noxious fumes, sprays, smokes, or dusts e : a covering for an opening (as a companion hatch) on a boat
- hood transitive verb
- hood·like /-"lIk/ adjective
also : BLINDER
Days of Lot bump.
The New Madrid quakes of 1811-12 destroyed every building within 250 of its center and knocked down chimneys in Maine, half a continent away. See, CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS OF MISSISSIPPI VALLEY EARTHQUAKES OF 1811-1812
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