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To: Strategerist

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.


13 posted on 03/10/2005 1:51:30 PM PST by Petronski (Zebras: Free Range Bar Codes of the Serengeti)
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To: Petronski
I think the 'difference' is that whereas many of us are just noting the springing to life of certain volcanos, others act like it is the end of the world because Mt. St. Helens blows off some steam and ash (which is a good thing, in the long run).

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.

15 posted on 03/10/2005 1:56:02 PM PST by UCANSEE2
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To: Petronski

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.


17 posted on 03/10/2005 1:57:20 PM PST by Strategerist
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To: Petronski

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.....


19 posted on 03/10/2005 2:12:44 PM PST by Strategerist
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