Posted on 03/10/2005 1:26:20 PM PST by Strategerist
It's getting dark, a little cloudy, can't tell what's going on at the webcam:
http://www.avo.alaska.edu/avo4/atlas/volc/spurr/spurr2004/index.html
Looks like there MIGHT be some sort of eruptive cloud there low to the mountain, then again, might be regular clouds.
I'm not a geologist.
But I did stay at a Holiday Inn Last night :-).
Nope! It's Bush's fault!
...Seems the whole Northwest part of the continent is active. Mt. Saint Helens to Mt. Spurr. The shaky side shaking again. Thanks for the post...
Unfrozen water and 102F fumeroles at 11,00 ft. that have melted through 70M of snow and ice? As a layman, I'd say we got ourselves a live one.
http://www.esa.int/export/esaEO/SEMUVXO256E_planet_0.html
Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia
Well, that's two volcanoes out of hundreds (including all the ones in Alaska.)
Mt. Veniaminof just stopped erupting, actually.
This was happening last year also.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1180675/posts
That was the beginning of seismicity.
What is (apparently) happening today seismically is the first time this has happened during this episode...continuous tremor...not just rock-breaking earthquakes.
Some quiet volcanos on the Russian landscape are acting up as well.
First, I want to state before anything else, that I am not wise in the ways of science. That being admitted...
You're normally the one who shows up to refute these things...if you're posting about this, I pay attention.
I doubt he's a brother either.
The more one gets involved in this kind of event, the more one sees that these events are not unusual in any way.
The flows under the mantle are changing, as they always have. That means corresponding changes in and above the mantle. C'est la vie.
These are two sites my son likes to watch.
http://www.volcanolive.com/volcanolive.html
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/current_volcs/current.html
The AVO hasn't officially said anything about the seismicity today (their last update was last evening) so I'm reluctant to make the sort of "she's gonna blow!" post that I'm usually not thrilled with on FR.
But the webicorder does seem to indicate "real" activity (not activity from distant quakes, there are no trains nearby, I really doubt it's wind noise) that looks very much like the eruption traces from the Mount Saint Helens webicorder, or possibly like "harmonic" tremor (movement of magma.) Continuous tremor is pretty significant.
Mainly what I debunk are the apocalptikooks trying to portray normal activity as "earth changes" or a sign of the End Times or other such nonsense (In the grand scheme of things, even the Sumatran tsunami was perfectly normal and routine, of course.)
As the AVO notes, one of the Cook Inlet volcanoes erupts on average every 8 years. The last to erupt was Spurr back in 1992...it's been over 12 years.
The one interesting twist here is the activity is beneath the main vent that hasn't erupted in 5,000 years, not the subsidiary Crater Peak vent that has been the source of dozens of eruptions in the last 5000 years and the last eruption.
The volcanoes that are currently erupting on Kamchatka are volcanes that are rarely "quiet"...they're volcanoes that erupt a lot.
Hmmm..
Just looked at the weather there and there's a pretty big storm in the Gulf of Alaska...high wind advisory (50-70 mph) for high elevations.
The change in activity COULD just be wind noise.....
I will be following your thread on this story. If it could go off without harming persons or property, by all means, I sure hope it goes off--bigtime.
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