Eruption At Mount St. Helens

[Rainscents]

http://www.komotv.com/stories/35624.htm

Mount St. Helens Just erupted 10 minutes ago in Portland, OR.

[Randi_Listener]

2. Holy shit!

I thought the fucking thing had cooled down!

[Rainscents]

4. I thought so too...

[Randi_Listener]

7. What is happening now?

Is there shit raining down in Seattle now?

[elfin]

3. Olbermann reports

his sources say it is "steam" and not an eruption.

Edited for spelling.

[Rainscents]

5. It has erupted!!! I'm watching it live in Seattle TV right now!

[glitch]

9. King5 Danger Boy is On The Case! Ash plume, 40 thousand feet heading to

Yakima. Diminishing now.

[Generic Other]

20. Jim Foreman fell in the volcano you say?

Ha Ha. That guy is a one-man comedy routine.

[flamingyouth]

23. King5 Danger Boy - ROFL

:evilgrin:

[glitch]

24. You guys haven't heard him called that? I didn't make it up, although I

take it and run with it. It's just so perfect.

[starroute]

6. Mount St. Helens webcam

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

I don't see anything special in the pic, though.

[Randi_Listener]

11. It's a total clusterfuck.

There isn't shit in that webcam shot. It looks a little goddamn foggy but that's it.

[bahrbearian]

8. Hey we are all entitled to give off a little gas now and then.

[Tom Kitten]

10. view from Portland

about 5:30 pm...

[warrior1]

12. Thar she blows

.

[IndianaGreen]

14. Now, that looks like real ash

not the steam from the live cam.

Perhaps this is a burp before the real fireworks starts.

[IndianaGreen]

13. Here is the volcano cam for St. Helens

There is still some light left in the day:

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

[Newsjock]

15. LIve video stream from KING, Seattle

http://www.nwcn.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_king5&props=live

(registration required, use http://bugmenot.com)

[opiate69]

16. Damn clouds..

I'd probably be able to see the ash plume from my house if it wasn't for the damn cloud cover right now.

[_testify_]

17. this must be Al-Qaeda's doing....or maybe the gays

i kid. i hope everyone near there is okay...

[Randi_Listener]

21. It's the liberals.

And the goddamn Hollywood elite.

[LittleClarkie]

25. Yeah! Elitist, liberal, gay, communist terrorists from Hollywood!

Damn them, they're clever.

[_testify_]

18. Any seismologists on the boards tonite?

Is this an isolated incident or can this lead to further eruptions?

[Generator]

19. Too funny

I live in Portland, Or and yet I'm typing this sentence.

St. Helens is not in Portland, just so you know, or my problems would all be over. But alas, here I am still bitching about politics. How funny,guess I should turn on the TeeVee to see if we are doomed.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

29. Hello neighbor....

I watched it from the corner of Interstate and Killingsworth (thru the trees) and then popped into George's for a beer to celebrate and watch on TV. Then it fizzled! Darn!

[Scairp]

22. It fucking figures

I look at this volcano every single bloody day via the internet, and wouldn't you know it, the camera was down since Friday!!! I gave up earlier in the day today so unknown if they managed to get it fixed in time and capture the images.

[CabalPowered]

26. Eruption wasn't massive. Link to webricorders...

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/welcome.html

This is the same type of buildup witnessed in 2004. I haven't been keeping a close eye on the situation but there were reports several days ago of movement along the subduction zone. This buildup is most likely associated with the recent subduction zone activity.

Baker is showing some movement in the last week, probably also associated with the subduction zone.

The good news is..Rainier is quiet.

[Lex]

27. Wow, it sure looks massive!

Yikes.

[TankLV]

28. Just probably too much garlic in the camp stew!

I wasn't near the place!

Really!

[msongs]

30. mt. st. helens is NOT in Portland Oregon, despite the thread title. n/t

[bitchkitty]

38. I was wondering when someone was

going to say something! :)

[Blue to the bone]

31. Where's Rove???? n/t

[neverforget]

32. I saw it on my way home from work at 530! It was so cool to see that

going off! Oh yeah, I live in Portland.

[Lex]

33. Tell us what it looks like today!

If you get a chance to file a report with us.

[CalebHayes]

34. Without warning Mount St. Helens emits cloud of ash

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7132927/

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.
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[TaleWgnDg]

hhmmmm . . .

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RUN

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[Prisoner_Number_Six]

That happened to me once

but I got better.

:evilgrin:

[Moderator]

kick to combine threads

[Domitan]

Large Plume Billows From Mount St. Helens

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050309/D88N77M80.html

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - 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.

[Spock_is_Skeptical]

1. wow...

and bizarrely, the news snippet on AAR just *now* as I am reading this post mentions this.

[NV Whino]

35. Darn, the camera was not functioning when I checked this morning.

[cliss]

36. Sheesh, I'm only 35 miles away from that baby.

Don't blow.

[medeak]

37. my son is celebrating bday today

in Portland...will tell him the normal fireworks are adequate.

[lebkuchen]

39. Mt Pinatubo's eruption had an initial blast that was bigger than that

Pinatubo let off steam for weeks before it set off a beautiful mushroom cloud in the a.m. that reached into the jet stream and was carried off to sea. Only a little dusting of ash fell during the initial eruption, known as "the appetizer." Volcanologists said the main course was about to be served, and it was, three days later, with an eruption ten times that of Mt. St. Helens in 1980. There was no daylight for 24 hours. The eruption created its own weather pattern, and ash fell constantly with the rain and wind of an approaching typhoon. Added to the constant tremors, it was very unnerving.

Since Pinatubo hadn't erupted in 600 years or so, the volcanologists were expecting a huge eruption. It's fortunate that Mt. St. Helens goes off every few years, so that it's not so cataclysmic, yet beautiful to watch and appreciate for its magnificence. It's awesome, in the purest sense of the word, to see an eruption, no matter what the size.

Appetizers:




Main course:

[emad]

40. US volcano Mount St Helens erupts

BBC

The Mount St Helens volcano has erupted in the US, sending a cloud of ash and smoke nearly 40,000 feet (12,000m) into the air.

The eruption comes after weeks of heightened seismic activity, marked by tremors and mudslides.

It is not believe to pose any threat to people in the sparsely-populated area of Washington state.

A eruption 25 years ago killed 57 people and coated nearby towns in a layer of ash.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4332817.stm

[Itchinjim]

41. How can we pin this on Bush?

Hmmmmm...

[Pachamama]

43. God's Mad?

I think that one could definitely be pinned on Bush....he's pissing God off....

:evilgrin:

[HuckleB]

42. I was on a bike ride along the Columbia, as is my norm...

in the evenings this hot, dry northwest winter. What an incredible sight greeted me last night, along with the Blue Herons that flew along side of me. (My sweat must smell like fish!)

[struggle4progress]

44. Earthquakes Continue To Rumble Under Mount St. Helens

POSTED: 4:56 pm PST March 9, 2005

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Hundreds of small earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since Tuesday as steam continues to vent at the top. The biggest quake registered a magnitude 2.6 on Wednesday.

Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey's volcano observatory here were getting ready to head home when the squiggly line on the computer which tracks seismic activity at Mount St. Helens suddenly turned a solid black.

"It just kept on going and going and going," said research hydrologist Jon Major, referring to the seismic line which registered Tuesday's earthquake measuring a magnitude of 2.0.

Outside the building, the mountain -- 50 miles northeast -- was belching steam and ash seven miles high, signaling the most powerful blast since Mount St. Helens reawakened last fall. <snip>

http://www.kirotv.com/news/4270347/detail.html

[Randi_Listener]

45. And now the motherfucker has calmed down.

Now it's non-stop Jacko on my fucking TV.

[Roland99]

46. Earthquakes in the area

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Maps/US10/42.52.-130.-120.html

There's also a research ship from the Univ. of Washington headed out to the area to take a look at the Juan de Fuca ridge that runs about 100 miles off shore off the Oregon and Washington coasts. The current thinking is that there's active lava flows building up the ridge associated with the quakes there and the movements along the plate are providing fresh magma for Mt. St. Helens.

[info being]

48. The whole Northwest will be destroyed at some point

There is a great documentary on the issue called "Cascadia" that plays on PBS.

[Almost_there]

47. Just Dr. Evil testing his device...

Nothing to see here, move along.. just Dr. Evil testing out his nuclear device to see if it will create a reaction spewing liquid hot MAGMA...