Mt. St. Helens is going to kill you.

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-09-29 11:40am

USGS.GOV wrote:U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, Washington
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, Seattle, Washington

Volcanoes in the Cascade Range are all at normal levels of background seismicity except Mount St. Helens. See Mount St. Helens update below.

Other volcanoes include,Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, and Mount Adams in Washington State; Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Three Sisters, Newberry, and Crater Lake, in Oregon; and Medicine Lake, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak in northern California.

USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory, the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington, and the USGS Northern California Seismic Network and Volcano Hazards Team in Menlo Park, California, monitor the major volcanoes in the Cascade Range of northern California, Oregon, and Washington.

Mount St. Helens Daily Update 9/27/04 7:00 PM PDT

Seismic activity has very slowly increased throughout the day. All earthquake locations are still shallow and beneath the dome. The largest earthquake recorded in the past 24 hours has been about a M1.5 and no M2 earthquakes have been detected in the past 24 hours. Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) crews installed GPS equipment today to monitor any ground movement on the dome, crater floor and the slopes of the volcano. Preliminary results from a gas flight late this afternoon did not detect any magmatic gas around the lava dome.

For past updates and yesterday’s Notice of Volcanic Unrest see past updates at: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cas ... ework.html

A few photographs of today’s fieldwork and of the volcano can be found on our website can be obtained from:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/News/framework.html

Daily updates of earthquake data and other information can be found on the WORLD WIDE WEB at URL:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/CurrentActivity
(CVO Menu - Monthly Summaries and Updates)

and

http://www.pnsn.org/HELENS/welcome.html

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-29 11:42am

Why me?

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-09-29 11:43am

Rogue 9 wrote:Why me?

First name that popped into my head

That makes you worthy of holy castration! Bring forth the holy pruning shears!

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-09-29 11:50am

Great. *STAB* <=======

=]==O

As for the question, ask Captain Chewbacca. *Shrug* I don't know the conditions that precipitated the last eruption.

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2004-09-29 11:53am

Come on, sacrifice your balls for the public good!

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-09-29 11:54am

I'd rather see what Yosemite's big bomb is doing. When that baby goes off, half of America won't need no spaceship to get a ride to orbit.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-09-29 12:46pm

We'll know if it's going to go when they get the ground deformation results in, but as long as they arent detecting magmatic outgassing activity beyond the tremor swarms, then it's probably hard to say what's going on. There's a thread on it somewhere further down where Capt.Chewbacca said it was probably going to be an explosion rather than an eruption.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2004-09-29 12:58pm

With only 24 years since it last erupted... no... If it does, it wont be major.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-09-29 01:40pm

I'm pretty sure it'll erupt sometime, so yes. I say this in the same way that I'm pretty sure Vesuvius and Mt. Rainer will also erupt sometime. It's going to happen eventually. I just don't know if it'll be soon or not.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-09-29 02:05pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'd rather see what Yosemite's big bomb is doing. When that baby goes off, half of America won't need no spaceship to get a ride to orbit.

Yellowstone.

And yeah, It's not extinct... So, yeah.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-09-29 02:17pm

Lazy Raptor wrote:
Admiral Valdemar wrote:I'd rather see what Yosemite's big bomb is doing. When that baby goes off, half of America won't need no spaceship to get a ride to orbit.
Yellowstone.

And yeah, It's not extinct... So, yeah.

Isn't that thing blowing like the equivalent of an asteroid hitting you?

And when did it blow last time?

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2004-09-29 02:22pm

Guardsman Bass wrote: Isn't that thing blowing like the equivalent of an asteroid hitting you?

And when did it blow last time?

Something like an asteroid. It's not mass extinction-level size, but we'd be in pretty deep shit. It last erupted something like 640,000 years ago, and has an approximately 600,000 year cycle.

dr. what · Post by **dr. what** » 2004-09-29 02:22pm

Good site here
http://www.solcomhouse.com/yellowstone.htm

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-09-29 02:34pm

North America has pretty much always been a volcanic death trap. Had the K-T asteroid not hit, dinosaurs probably still would have died out here.

The dead rhinos from the eruption 2 million years ago can be found as far as Kansas.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-09-29 02:36pm

Lazy Raptor wrote: Yellowstone.

And yeah, It's not extinct... So, yeah.

Knew it began with a "y".

I haven't heard anything about it lately, but ground penetrating radar and ultrasonics have said that there's quite a mass of magma below the park. Even if it doesn't explode, that's one spicy soup going to pour out if it gives way.

CJvR · Post by **CJvR** » 2004-09-29 04:48pm

A second eruption so soon after the 1980 blast sounds a bit hasty, it is probably only a mild burp after the blast 20 years ago - probably...

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-09-29 04:59pm

Seems most everything has been covered, but I'd like to point out that the last Yellowstone eruption didn't cause any mass-extinctions, even in North America.

Sure the US will be screwed, and temps will drop 10 degrees worldwide, but life goes on. And hey, no more global warming!

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2004-09-29 05:03pm

As nature always intended, Colorado will end up buried under a mile of molent lava not once, but TWICE.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-09-29 05:04pm

God is just warming up his just and loving punishment for America's permissive secular society.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2004-09-29 05:07pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:Sure the US will be screwed, and temps will drop 10 degrees worldwide, but life goes on. And hey, no more global warming!

Yeah, that'll take care of Florida's hurricane problem for a while.

Guardsman Bass · Post by **Guardsman Bass** » 2004-09-29 05:19pm

aerius wrote:
CaptainChewbacca wrote:Sure the US will be screwed, and temps will drop 10 degrees worldwide, but life goes on. And hey, no more global warming!
Yeah, that'll take care of Florida's hurricane problem for a while.

And probably cause another "Year without Summer," although this time it would probably be like 5 years. Food will be expensive.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2004-09-29 05:37pm

Darth Wong wrote:God is just warming up his just and loving punishment for America's permissive secular society.

You sure that wasn't George W. Bush?

Post by **Coyote** » 2004-09-29 05:55pm

Guardsman Bass wrote:...And probably cause another "Year without Summer," although this time it would probably be like 5 years. Food will be expensive.

Not as long as there are plenty of poor people and migrants to eat!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2004-09-29 05:59pm

Darth Garden Gnome wrote:As nature always intended, Colorado will end up buried under a mile of molent lava not once, but TWICE.

Ash, not lava.

BTW, I am gratified that when geology threads pop up people say "Ask Chewie."

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-09-29 07:57pm

I am fairly confident there will be a small eruption, just as there have been several small eruptions at St. Helens since the 1980 blast. It'll build up the lava dome a bit, maybe let off a nice plume of smoke. That'll be it.

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