Series of earthquakes rattle Mount St. Helens

[Viva_La_Revolution]

MOUNT St. HELENS, Wash. - Three earthquakes ranging in magnitudes between 2.6 and 2.8 rattled Mount St. Helens Sunday evening and into Monday morning.
The earthquakes are in addition to a magnitude 3.1 event on Saturday, which was the strongest shaking the volcano has seen since its new lava dome began growing in October.

Scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey continue to say no major eruption is imminent, that the latest activity is a continuation of the activity the volcano has seen since its reawakening.



Mount St. Helens remains at a Level 2 alert status, which is a volcano advisory.

more...http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=73008

[benburch]

1. Webcam

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

[TahitiNut]

8. This image (from the webcam) will update, even in this post.

This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley. The VolcanoCam image automatically updates approximately every five minutes. Please make sure your web browser is not set to cache images or you may not see the updates when the web page refreshes.

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[peacemeal]

2. Link to Mt. St. Helens camera

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

After reading your post I checked the link and I thought the mountain looked particularly beautiful this morning. (Most days lately it's been too cloudy to see it.)

[MaryH]

4. I look at it every day, too.

I have family in both Seattle and Spokane so I watch. I remember the last time she came roaring to life. My family in Spokane spent days trying to get the ash out of everything. It was a real mess - ruined car engines - everything. Went pitch dark in the middle of the day. My poor Uncle never did get over it.

[SpiralHawk]

3. When Little Sister speaks...

...Grandfather will answer...

[Eloriel]

6. Yup --

and a lot of their other relations around the world have also been "speaking" over these past several weeks.

Exciting, isn't it? (I am sorry for any destruction of human lives and property, etc., but I still can't help but find this very exciting.)

[rucky]

7. Rainier?

i hear he's due, too.

[rucky]

5. It's reassuring to hear that the four horsmen...

are keeping us Northwesterners in mind.

:evilgrin:

[SpiralHawk]

10. Don't Change Horsemen

In the middle of an Apocalypse.

keep BushCo at the reins,

and hang on for the wild ride to

self-generated Armageddon.

[nashville_brook]

9. they resonate btwn opposite hemispheres

first Japan -- now Seattle.

damn, i hate earthquakes!