Mount St. Helens going off again?

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ ^ | 10/5/2004 | www.pnsn.org

[RosieCotton]

You'd better hope it stays that way! ;-)

[steveegg]

Thanks.

[Howlin]

martin, martin; you are hopeless.......LOL.

[Not A Snowbird]

I think that was Mt. Hood. Probably just jealous of all the attention St. Helens is getting.

[steveegg]

> MSHelens

OMG! Microsoft bought Mount St. Helens

Then it will either turn out to be a nothing-burger or something that tops Pompeii; no middle ground here.

[pnz1]

Thank you! I think it was Mt. Hood. Sorry about that.

[LikeLight]

Those links are exasperating . . . all you can get is the Olay commercial, then nothing . . . and even when you can get through, it will suddenly cut you off . . .

[Petronski]

and with all that glacier water melting down into the hot magma, something's gonna happen.

Hot Mag-muh!

[Duckdog]

Kind of wimpy, I was down in the Philippines when Pinatubo blew its top. Now that was an eruption!

[Not A Snowbird]

It was working earlier. I think it's overloaded.

[lilylangtree]

Well, if you were Mt. St. Helens and you were located on the liberal leftist socialistic west side of the state and had to listen to the likes of Patty Moron Murray, Maria Cantbudgetwell, Baghdad Jim McDermott, Gary Locke (the first Chinese-American governor) and tolerate the likes of Botox and Booby Socks and the Clintoonians visiting, you'd be burping and passing gas, experiencing all kinds of indigestion and ready to blowup too.

[aBootes]

Very regular volcano. About noon (EDT), about every day.

[Turk82_1]

Seems like it is back up - I wonder how many streams they are feeding

[Vicki]

Yes I believe there was, but doesn't it has small quakes all the time or what that one more signficant? I see those picture of St. Helens on the news with Mt. Rainier in the background and I hope Rainier isn't getting any signals from St. Helens.

If Rainier blew that would be a very significant event and it would ruin the beauty of the mountain.

[Busywhiskers]

Geologic flatulance.

[Turk82_1]

You know, I wish everyone would calm down about Rainier. Granted, it is a beautiful mountain and all, but the activity on the seismos are ALL MSH activity.

The only danger is that the glacier is *JUST* about to slide off the rotten stone atop Rainier. In that case, ANYTHING could make the glacier move. Then you get a lahar. Bad news, if so.

Smithsonian mag was so scared of lahars about 10 years ago that they put Rainier on the cover.

BUT - there is no evidence that Rainier is being affected.

[ecurbh]

Well, frankly, we'd like to see Rainer go off. That would make one heck of a show! And there are too many darn people around here!

[Strategerist]

There was a lone tiny earthquake at Mt. Hood yesterday.

Hood had small swarms of about a dozen quakes each in March and April. It had 15 quake swarms of 50+ quakes each in the 1990s...all of the quakes seemed to be tectonic rather than volcanic in nature.

There has been no earthquake activity at Mt. Rainier at all.

[Strategerist]

The problem is Rainier could collapse without any eruption, or the slightest warning, at all. It's fundamentally unstable already. A number of it's larger historical lahars appear to have no connection to eruptive activity.

[Turk82_1]

Too true. But then, that could come about from a rain event more than a phreatic release 40 miles away.

That's the most likely course - rain lubricating the clay, or wet snow weighing the cap too heavily.