Mount st helens erupts again

[KilLAtomiK]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science...ens/index.html

[Tequila Zaire]

And so it begins...tick tick tick tick tick...

$20 says that thing is gonna go boom.

[ForrestBlack]

Hahaha... They just reported earth rumblings last week and said it was unlikely to erupt in any serious way.

[Trotter]

I saw one reporter commenting on how beautiful the smoke was coming from Helen, and she was putting on a real show. Beautiful if you're in a fucking helicopter looking at the damn thing, not so beautiful if you happen to be on the ground near it.

[CPRB]

actually it erupted but no magma...whihc menas there will be magma, naybe the need to dump some pron mags down there and make it erupt quicker

[-=Asmodeus=-]

the first time Mt St Helens did this the people were all like " Oh well its not gonna erupt I will stay here and watch the smoke and feel the earth move..Its no biggy ..Then BOOM!!!!.."

I betcha this time when the earth moved and the smoke came those ppl said "Lets get the fuck outa here.."

I think there will be more to it than just smoke and shake...I wanna see hot flowing rock....

[Nightingale]

the first time Mt St Helens did this the people were all like " Oh well its not gonna erupt I will stay here and watch the smoke and feel the earth move..Its no biggy ..Then BOOM!!!!.."
....

Ever been to Pompeii?

They thought the same thing there too, and are still there in all their stoney silence as proof that man is not infallible.

[TheQuietPlace]

Mt. St. Helens Few hundred miles away from my house.

Erupts yesterday 11:56am lasts 24 minutes. 12:20, eruption ends.

Now they say its building up in pressure again.

[TheQuietPlace]

Looks like they were right. It has erupted again today. I dont know what time though... I'll inform you all soon.

[TheQuietPlace]

From CNN.com :
VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN) -- Mount St. Helens released huge, billowing clouds Monday in what geologists called a small eruption of steam and ash that indicated rising temperatures within the volcano.

"It was a burst of steam and ash that came out fairly continuously for about 40 minutes" starting about 9:42 a.m. (12:42 p.m. ET), said Tom Pierson of the U.S. Geological Survey.

The plumes, larger and darker than those of Friday's steam eruption, rose to about 10,000 feet above sea level, about 1,600 feet above the peak, according to geologists and pilots in the area.

Minor earthquakes that have been rumbling more or less continuously since September 23 did not stop during Monday's eruption, again unlike during Friday's event. The earthquakes indicate releases of seismic energy and magma movement.

"What we saw this morning was a prelude to, presumably, something more that's going to happen," Pierson said.

"Ultimately the pressure driving the magma upwards has not been dissipated by this steam burst," he said.

"When that magma gets to the surface, the gas within it will drive the eruption. It'll provide the energy the eruption needs to push the ash up into the air."

Willie Scott of the USGS said at a news conference that the clouds were the result of the intense heat from inside the volcano interacting with melting waters from the glacier above.

"What we see here is boiling going on where hot material has contacted the ice," he said, noting that it was not clear how much ash was mixed in with the steam.

Scott said there was little to worry about from the gas eruption.

"What we're more concerned about is what's following behind it," he said.

A Level 3 alert is in effect, the highest issued by the USGS. Tourists are being kept away from Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, a large park surrounding the peak.

The volcano has been increasingly active in recent days, and officials have warned that it could erupt at any minute.

Officials have said they do not expect any kind of catastrophic eruption like the one of May 18, 1980, in which 57 people were killed.

The volcano, 95 miles south of Seattle, lay dormant for 123 years before the 1980 eruption, which knocked more than 1,000 feet off the peak in a violent explosion of rock, steam and ash.

The mountain is very different from how it was 24 years ago, said Bonnie Lippitt of the U.S. Forest Service.

"It's quite a bit shorter," Lippitt said. "There's a lot less volume to it as a result of the 1980 eruption."

Before 1980 the volcano was 9,677 feet high; now it is 8,364 feet high, the USGS said.

Several smaller eruptions took place through 1986 and in 1998 and 2001.

Bill Steele, a seismologist with the University of Washington, said the activity Monday was unlike anything since the buildup to the 1980 eruption.

"We really have a good basis for concern," Steele said, though he added that a catastrophic eruption was not expected. "This is more than the normal fluctuation of the volcano by far."

The USGS clocked harmonic tremors last weekend, and one that lasted 90 minutes Sunday night. Such tremors are continuous, rhythmic quakes that often precede eruptions, and 90 minutes is the longest one clocked so far.

Geologists also detected a bulge of 50 to 100 feet in the lava dome inside the volcano's crater. Increased concentrations of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide were detected in the air, signs of fresh magma rising.

[TheQuietPlace]

Here's a link to the "VolcanoCam"

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[HempKnight]

Yeah.... you know at this point it was actually safer living in Detroit,
never had earthquakes or volcanos... none of that shit...
figures I moved here and they catch the Green River Killer
(which is cool and all) but then have the weirdness of natural disasters.

All I can say, at least this ain't Florida... feel sorry for you poor bastards with that shit... but been there, done that... lived through quite a few hurricanes and other such tropical storms, as well as some other fucktard weather to boot. Nothing like 4 and half foot of snow at 14 below to make your day, which is one of the reasons why I won't move back to Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston or any place that has weather like that, plus Nudemuse has never experienced anythng like that and I wouldn't want to put her through that. Unless we have the fully stocked winter cabin with a houseboy or two to take care of our every need and don't ever have to go outside.

[pelelaka]

i moved out of florida to oklahoma just in time! i didn't know they had active volcano's in north america. that's kind of sad but i think a lot of people who don't have to deal with the bull shit don't know it's out there. do you think there's a substance that could stand the heat of lava enough to, i dunno, ride the current down the mountain? that would be fun.

[TheQuietPlace]

Darn. They got everyone so excited for a medium eruption, then today they lower the danger level. *shrug* Whenever it builds up pressure, it just exits through one of the other holes... my brain died. o.o

[Kidthorazine]

nice to see that they treat volcanoes and national security the same way hehe

[TheQuietPlace]

nice to see that they treat volcanoes and national security the same way hehe

yeah...
There was this one article, I'm not sure of its legitimacy, but it was really funny. There was a quote saying "Al Qaeda may be controlling Mount St. Helens, warns White House."