Earthquakes and now Mt St Helens spews!

[stubeeef]

Breaking news about Mt St Helens, seems it is letting some big steam right now

[emw]

Do you have a link, or was this just on the news or something? I don't see anything on CNN.

[stubeeef]

Was on local 10 Oclock news, should be on the mass media soon.............

Looked like a large plume.

[Lacero]

There's visible lava seen from the KING-TV helicopters.

[stubeeef]

Link (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=1&u=/ap/20050309/ap_on_sc/mount_st__helens)

Large Plume Billows From Mount St. Helens
20 minutes ago
*Science - AP

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. - Mount St. Helens released a towering plume of ash Tuesday, its most significant emission in months but one that seismologists did not believe heralded any major eruption.
The volcano has vented ash and steam since last fall, when thousands of small earthquakes marked a seismic reawakening of the 8,364-foot mountain.

Late afternoon television footage showed the plume billowing thousands of feet into the air, then drifting slowly to the northeast.

The ash explosion happened around 5:25 p.m., about an hour after a 2.0 magnitude quake rumbled on the east side of the mountain, said Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.

Steele said he did not believe the explosion had increased the risk of a significant eruption and noted that recent flights over the volcano's crater did not reveal high levels of gases.

[rtdgoldfish]

It is getting crazy with all these earthquakes and related problems in the past few months. Makes me think that we haven't seen the worst of it. Hope I am wrong but I can't ever remember this much activity in the past years. I am afraid I will wake up one morning and there will be another major tsunami or earthquake...Anyway, enough of my doomsday predictions...Time for some sleep...

[saabmp3]

Yup, it got a little dark here around 5:30. King TV did have the lava shots and I guess I heard that the smoke is up to 60,000 feet. That's pretty high!

BEN

[Mechcozmo]

Go here (http://news.google.com/) for your news.

Here is the link Google gives out. Linkety (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=563492)

[Palomino]

A most interesting development. Wonder how far it will go.

Jordan

[Lacero]

I hope it blows! News has been pretty slow lately, so this should help with the ratings. Blow baby blow!

[andrewm]

I hope it blows! News has been pretty slow lately, so this should help with the ratings. Blow baby blow!

I haven't had a laugh that good in the last several minutes! Someone do one of those mock 'priceless' MasterCard(tm) adverts--please?

[virividox]

i hope no one gets injujred

[Chappers]

These volcanos should sign up to the Kyoto treaty, oops sorry this ones in the USA.

[stubeeef]

These volcanos should sign up to the Kyoto treaty, oops sorry this ones in the USA.

Or outscource our US volcanos to countries that never had Kyoto problems, like india or china.

[ziwi]

;) THE END IS NEAR ;)

So it is either a sign of the end or just some Mother Earth corrective tuning. Perhaps we have damaged the planet beyond repair and it is the beginning of cascade failure. I am sure there will be more to come.

[raggedjimmi]

theres a rather interesting BBC drama coming out soon to run on Sunday and Monday nights. doubtless there will be people uploading it but it looks set to be a very good docu/movie.

its all about a what-if, talking about the consequences of St.Helens erupting. there was an article in a newspaper this morning saying that people within a 500 mile radius would choke on a cement-like power, or be buried by ash, lava or the sheer explosive force would just destroy everything. the footprint of the disaster zone is quite big convering all of the west-coast of america, all the central part and bits of the east.
you think somebody was trying to say something :p

the rest of the world would be plunged into a cold nuclear-winter style scenario. but with stock piles and all that the majority would survive. and of course avoiding acid rain.

[iriejedi]

This all started with the last MS Windows upgrade..... I knew bill was drilling do the center of the earth to get a power source for longhorn!
:p

;) THE END IS NEAR ;)

So it is either a sign of the end or just some Mother Earth corrective tuning. Perhaps we have damaged the planet beyond repair and it is the beginning of cascade failure. I am sure there will be more to come.

[PlaceofDis]

just out of curiosity.....which valcano is the largest? i know St Helens is up there, but is that the largest we have or is there another bigger one?

[wordmunger]

just out of curiosity.....which valcano is the largest? i know St Helens is up there, but is that the largest we have or is there another bigger one?
Well, Mount Rainier in Washington is much bigger. Mt. St. Helens is about 9,700 feet tall, but Rainier is 14,410.

There are much bigger (http://www.geographyolympics.com/questions/tallest_volcano.php) volcanos in South America, though!

[PlaceofDis]

Well, Mount Rainier in Washington is much bigger. Mt. St. Helens is about 9,700 feet tall, but Rainier is 14,410.

There are much bigger (http://www.geographyolympics.com/questions/tallest_volcano.php) volcanos in South America, though!

cool thanks for the link WordMunger...checking it out now....

[vouder17]

There was also an earthquake in South africa.....the earth is moving!!!

DjVoTeZ

[Belly-laughs]

Here´s a link (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/supervolcano/index.shtml) to the BBC documentary. Scary stuff!

[andrewm]

Well, Mount Rainier in Washington is much bigger. Mt. St. Helens is about 9,700 feet tall, but Rainier is 14,410.

There are much bigger (http://www.geographyolympics.com/questions/tallest_volcano.php) volcanos in South America, though!

I have read that Mauna Loa in Hawai'i is the tallest volcano--the tallest mountain, too--in the world--when one measures its height from the sea floor.

Can anyone fill us in on Ojos del Salado?

Cheers,
Andrew

[strider42]

just out of curiosity.....which valcano is the largest? i know St Helens is up there, but is that the largest we have or is there another bigger one?

taller or bigger. I saw a documentary on the discovery channel i think about super volcanoes. Apparently almost the entire area of yellowstone national park is one huge volcano that has erupted at least three times in history. The power from that volcano, if it ever erupted again, would dwarf anything you'd see from mount st helens, and would have global effects. it is this volcanic activity that makes yellowstone so geothermally active.

But, its not very tall though, but its far bigger than any other volcano in north america that I know of. its also very unlikely to erupt.

[wdlove]

It just seems to be an indication that Mt. St. Helen's is in an active phase. Maybe better for the residents that it releases some stream and ash in small amounts occasionally. Than to have the large blowup that occurred about 20 years ago.

[Lacero]

Any news of possible terrorist involvement?

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Any news of possible terrorist involvement?
Not yet, but the CIA has started an official investigation

[ehurtley]

It just seems to be an indication that Mt. St. Helen's is in an active phase. Maybe better for the residents that it releases some stream and ash in small amounts occasionally. Than to have the large blowup that occurred about 20 years ago.

25 years ago this May. (It was my sister's 8th birthday. Now THERE'S a birthday you'll never forget. I can't remember what happened on my own birthday that year, but I certainly remember hers.)

[Chappers]

Not yet, but the CIA has started an official investigation

and is expected to recommend the president to invade Poland, Swaziland and Togo on the off chance they were involved, somehow, maybe....

[miloblithe]

just out of curiosity.....which valcano is the largest? i know St Helens is up there, but is that the largest we have or is there another bigger one?

The biggest volcano in the US is Yellowstone.

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/yvo/faqs.html

If it blows, we're screwed.

"The three caldera-forming eruptions, respectively, were about 2,500, 280, and 1,000 times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington State."

"the three largest Yellowstone eruptions emitted much more material than the eruptions of Mount St. Helens (1980), Mount Pinatubo (1991), Krakatau (1883), Mount Mazama (7,600 years ago), and Tambora (1815)."

"Three extremely large explosive eruptions have occurred at Yellowstone in the past 2.1 million years with a recurrence interval of about 600,000 to 800,000 years"

The last one was 640,000 years ago...

[kiwi_the_iwik]

Talking about those big pyroclastic "supervolcanoes", I believe one of the biggest is in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand - in Taupo.

When THAT puppy blows, then the World will know.

Auckland (a city of over 1.2 million people in New Zealand), on the other hand, resides on no fewer than 63 DORMANT volcanoes - and is long overdue for an eruption. It is of interest to note that if just ONE erupts, there will be a disaster of cataclysmic proportions...

There is an active volcano off the Bay of Plenty coast of the North Island called White Island - it is continually in a state of eruption, and is known as the "vent" of the country. If the activity ceases, geologists get worried enough to call in the air force to bomb the caldera...!

[stubeeef]

and is expected to recommend the president to invade Poland, Swaziland and Togo on the off chance they were involved, somehow, maybe....


Turns out it was all bogus, the cia got the documents from cbs. :p

[Chappers]

Turns out it was all bogus, the cia got the documents from cbs. :p

Too late!!!!!!!

[stevep]

Quote:
Apparently almost the entire area of yellowstone national park is one huge volcano that has erupted at least three times in history.

Bill Bryson, in 'A Short History of Nearly Everything', discusses Yellowstone Park - a really good read.

[stubeeef]

Too late!!!!!!!

What! Did the UN send in the pedophile brigade? Couldn't have - it takes them years to get deployed! :p