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"The Loaf" in Mount St. Helens' crater continues to cook, rising 10 to 30 feet in the preceding 24 hours, geologists said yesterday. The top of the new bulge is now slightly higher than the lava dome built up by a series of eruptions in the mid-1980s, said Jake Lowenstern, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist. Magma is the driving force that has uplifted the area nicknamed "the Loaf" nearly 300 feet in the past week. But two weeks after the volcano rumbled back to life, experts remain uncertain when and how that molten rock will reach the surface. They're...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- Scientists said the earthquakes and explosions at Mount St. Helens could lead to an eruption as powerful as the one in 1980, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported. The volcano reportedly spewed more steam overnight, but earthquakes continued to be fairly light, striking about once a minute and registering about magnitude one. Meanwhile, the speculation continued about what exactly is happening underneath the mountain. Scientists said part of the lava dome in the volcano's crater has risen 50 to 100 feet since Tuesday, a sign -- along with mild earthquake activity -- that molten rock may...

Mount St. Helens' daily throes have muscled TV's disaster watch away from Florida's hurricanes and gotten the nation wondering if another monster eruption like the killer of 1980 is in store. Scientists wonder, too. But they're also keeping an eye on 13 other major active volcanoes in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, aware that Mount St. Helens isn't even the most fearsome rock on the block. That distinction goes to Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot giant towering from 80 miles away over Seattle and its 3 million metro area residents. A year-round playground for hikers and skiers, Rainier hasn't...

Mount St. Helens Volcanic Eruptions: 1980 vs. Now Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News October 7, 2004 It was 8:32 a.m. on May 18, 1980, in southwestern Washington State. Jim Nieland was just backing out of his driveway when a neighbor yelled, "The mountain is erupting." Nieland, a U.S. Forest Service official, sped out on the highway and looked up at Mount St. Helens. A dark cloud was forming over the volcano. Halfway to the makeshift visitors center Nieland had been running for the past two months, he pulled over at a vista point. From there he watched a...

News Home - Help Mount St. Helens' Crater Floor Rising 1 hour, 21 minutes ago By GENE JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. - Part of Mount St. Helens' crater floor has risen 50 to 100 feet since Tuesday while earthquake rates have been low, signs that magma is moving upward without much resistance, scientists said Thursday. AP Photo   "The skids are greased," Jake Lowenstern, a U.S. Geological Survey (news - web sites) volcanologist, said at a news conference at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash. With the latest rising, an area of the crater...

This is the Official News Thread for Mt. St. Helens Information. (Please post all future updates, eyewitness account, news, and alerts to this thread.) United States Geological Survey(USGS) United States Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory LiveVolcano Cam from Johnston Ridge Webicorders Current Seismic Activity (See St. Helens - South-Ridge) KXL am 750 - Portland Live News Radio Stream

Click article link to see the article and explanation of how the images were obtained (also includes a true color image and a link to a high-resolution true-color image). At the very top of the high resolution image you can see the Visitor's Center where the VolcanoCam for Mt. St. Helens is located (literally at "the end of the road"). Direct link to the high-resolution IR image (only 1.5 MB, loads pretty easily): StHelens_TIR_MAS2004268_lrg.jpg

The United States Geological Service has lowered the alert level on Mt. St. Helens from a 3 to a 2. http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html For a description of the alert levels and schemes, http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Warn/WarnSchemes.html Alert level has been lowered because quake activity has dropped off.

Two New Vents Open MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- A scientist said there was an "interesting twist" in Tuesday morning's eruption at Mount St. Helens, which started at 9:03 a.m. and lasted for more than an hour. At an afternoon news briefing, Carl Thornber of the U.S. Geological Survey said there was no tremor or other seismic signal going into the eruption, which sent ash and steam thousands of feet into the sky. Thornber said there was no seismicity to speak of during the release, and it quieted down after the eruption. By 1 p.m., the earthquake activity was slowly...

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. (AP) - Mount St. Helens exhaled a spectacular roiling cloud of steam and ash Tuesday, sprinkling grit on a small town some 25 miles from the volcano. The volcano has been venting steam and small amounts of ash daily since Friday, but Tuesday morning's burst was the largest, producing a billowing, dark gray cloud that rose thousands of feet above the 8,364-foot-high rim of the crater and streamed miles to the northeast. For days, scientists have been warning that the volcano could blow at any moment with enough force to endanger lives and property....

"MUCH LARGER" EVENT PREDICTEDMount St. Helens sends steam and ash thousands of feet into the air...COLDWATER RIDGE VISITOR CENTER — Mount St. Helens yesterday again threw up billowing, anvil-shaped clouds of steam and a little ash, the largest explosion yet since it stirred back to life late last month. But the event didn't ease the pressure building up inside the volcano, and scientists cautioned that this was just an unsuccessful throat-clearing before what is expected to be a bigger eruption in the days or weeks ahead. "We could have a much larger event, essentially at any moment," said Willie Scott,...

Here it goes again!

Starting up again!

Pressure continues to build inside Mount St Helens, one of the US's deadliest volcanoes, but fears of an imminent eruption are receding. Geologists detected tremors in the crater and higher levels of gases in the air at the weekend and issued a level three alert. They have since discussed lowering the state of alert. Steam which rose from St Helens on Friday stirred fears of an eruption like that of 1980 which killed 57. The most recent eruption came in 1986. On Sunday, a tremor began which lasted about 25 minutes but it was gentler than a shuddering recorded on...

I've been looking through my scanner guide for areas around Mt. St. Helens for scanner freqs and have only founf ones for Skamania Co. Anyone out there have any others? Thanks in advance.

Check out this seismo from the HSR station. This looked a LOT like the one just before the last two eruptions.

A reawakening volcano sparked a makeshift festival here Sunday, as thousands of people staged parties at every wide spot in the two-lane road to the mountain. Geologic spectators set up lawn chairs in the beds of pickup trucks and fired up barbecues from the park entrance to the Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center at Milepost 43 - where the road is closed just 8.5 miles from the simmering volcano. Impromptu entrepreneurs hawked hot dogs and coffee. "There's such amazing energy here, and a connection among the people here. People are exchanging addresses and e-mails and telling their stories and sharing their...

Experts Detect Tremor at Mount St. Helens 2 hours, 9 minutes ago U.S. National - AP By DAVID AMMONS, Associated Press Writer MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL MONUMENT, Wash. - Scientists detected a volcanic tremor at Mount St. Helens early Sunday, just hours after officials raised the volcano's alert level, cleared hundreds of visitors from the area and warned a major eruption was imminent. AP Photo Reuters Slideshow: Mount St. Helens Erupts Sunday's tremor lasted about 25 minutes and was milder than the 50-minute tremor that followed a steam release Saturday, said Jeff Wynn, chief scientist for volcano hazards at the...

Mount St. Helens evacuated; substantial eruption "imminent" COLDWATER RIDGE VISITOR CENTER — A brief steam release yesterday followed by steady tremors deep within Mount St. Helens have led scientists to believe an eruption larger than Friday's 24-minute ash event may happen within days. In a sharp reversal of earlier predictions, scientists say they now believe the volcano is capable of a substantial explosion that could create an ash cloud rising tens of thousands of feet and a lava flow from new magma entering the volcano. Northwesterly winds potentially could carry an ash plume to Chehalis and Kelso. Because of these...