Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing (100 square miles near Mt St. Hellens)

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[oceanperch]

We really enjoy the Hatfield Marine Science Center across the bay for this kind of thing.

[FBD]

"See where this is happening, kiddo?"
-Yes, that's where the headwaters of the Deschutes River comes from.
Care to go rafting on a pyroclastic flow? Definitly Class VI +
=0

click on this photo link, for a panoramic view from space of Sisters, and central Oregon:

http://130.166.124.2/panoramas/oregon/sisters_or_60k.jpg

"...forewarned *is* forearmed.",<

Uh-huh...like this is gonna change my *plans* for this weekend...

"..she better lava me now, or lava me not..."

;^D

http://pubs.usgs.gov/imap/i2683/images/three_sisters.jpg

[mewzilla]

Any harmonic tremor?

[johnny7]

Super volcano?

[djf]

I've flown over Sisters a few times. Anybody who has can tell you this is one of the dog ugliest, craggiest, moonscape terrains they've ever seen, and totally able to produce extraordinary, cataclysmic events.

But Oregon has a history of them. There are huge escarpments and lava fields in Eastern Oregon from eruptions in the 10-20 million years ago timeframe that rivaled the last time Yellowstone went.

[r9etb]

I've flown over Sisters a few times. Anybody who has can tell you this is one of the dog ugliest, craggiest, moonscape terrains they've ever seen

Ah, but you'd be completely wrong about that. It's astoundingly beautiful around there.

[Landru]

>See where this is happening, kiddo?
"-Yes, that's where the headwaters of the Deschutes River comes from."

Worse than I thought, then.
What was that you were telling me about wanting to participate in [some] "XSport"? ;^)

"Care to go rafting on a pyroclastic flow? Definitly Class VI + =0"

Lends a whole new meaning to the term, "hottie".

"click on this photo link, for a panoramic view from space of Sisters, and central Oregon:"

Interesting.
And in the distance I see a little *spit* o'land.
That's a *5* hour drive from there to there, eh?

>...forewarned *is* forearmed."
"Uh-huh...like this is gonna change my *plans* for this weekend..."

HA!!
No I didn't think it would, you'd walk on the fires of perdition for the potential prospect(s) in store for you.
This I know. {g}

Just that it segwayed [nicely] into the topic we discussed the other day via email concerning inherent risk(s) associated with living in various geographic locations.
I'm certain you're very well versed on the situation in your "backyard".

"..she better lava me now, or lava me not..."

Cute, even witty.
But should that magma start flowing?
I'll wager 1,000 quatloos you'll be paddling your kayak like *2* MFs, ---> that-a-way --->. :o)

...*fact*. ;^)

[djf]

Living in the Northwest, believe me, I know what you're saying.

But here is another example of what I'm talking about:

Mt. Stuart in the central Cascades, 9,415 feet of mean.

[Cheburashka]

Has Washington recently changed its appearance? Does it smell better?

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No, but it's been a long time for Oregon and it's getting desperate.

Remember the old bar line about a 4 at 10 looking like at 10 at 4?

[Salvation]

Scientists find growing land bulge in Oregon