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All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in the PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

Ka30P wrote:
All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in the PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

I won't say congratulations, I do hope it is as close to
uneventful as possible.
--
Bonnie
NJ

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in the
PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

Why? Did some need more filter media?

BV.

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
...

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in
the
PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is
now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

Why? Did some need more filter media?

I think the problem with Spirit Lake had more to do with
the backwash procedure.

(It was a very pretty lake in the 70's)

Jerry

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in the
PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

I'm a geologist, and have been monitoring the volcano remotely (i.e., online)
since the first rumble started in September. This eruption and the Parkfield
earthquake in california lasty month have kept us all very busy and drooling
over the mountain of data these events have produced. Needless to say, the
current eruption will go down as the most closely watched, and the most
thoroughly studied volcanic event ever in the continental U.S. It has confirmed
many ideas on how these eruptions occur while startling us by showing clearly
how much more there is to discover. For those who like nice pictures in
deference to hard data, here are a few links to some fascinating high resolution
images of the eruption:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/

The following image compares a visual image of the erupting lava with an
infrared view that shows the heat of the magma:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/M...-13-04_med.jpg

For those who are interested in more technical aspects, here is a link to the
available near-real-time seismographs of the region:

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/GREEN/welcome.html

To use this page, scroll down and locate a particular sesimograph station (for
instance, Cedar Flats, at Mt. St. Helens) and click on the latest link for the
latest seismograph of tremor activity at that station.

For those who want even more technical information, try the following link,
which will take you to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, and lots of
information on Mt. St. Helens and other volcanoes in the region:

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

Just for fun, take a look at this site if you want to see what really large
eruptions have done in the past compared to the 1980 Mt St Helens eruption:

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/...esia/toba.html

And this last link gives plots of earthquake locations on Mt St Helens,
time-depth plots, and tremor magnitude over time.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SE...lensep_mo.html

I can answer most any questions you may have, so feel free to ask. Enjoy.

Anybody following long period events in determining if/when it will blow? Where is
Bernard Chouet these days? Ingrid

"George" wrote:
I'm a geologist, and have been monitoring the volcano remotely (i.e., online)
since the first rumble started in September. This eruption and the Parkfield
earthquake in california lasty month have kept us all very busy and drooling
over the mountain of data these events have produced. Needless to say, the
current eruption will go down as the most closely watched, and the most
thoroughly studied volcanic event ever in the continental U.S. It has confirmed
many ideas on how these eruptions occur while startling us by showing clearly
how much more there is to discover.


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George wrote:

I'm a geologist, and have been monitoring the volcano remotely (i.e.,
online)
since the first rumble started in September. This eruption and the
Parkfield earthquake in california lasty month have kept us all very busy
and drooling
over the mountain of data these events have produced. Needless to say,
the current eruption will go down as the most closely watched, and the
most
thoroughly studied volcanic event ever in the continental U.S.

Hey George - just because it _is_ in the continental US, I suspected it
would probably be the most thoroughly monitored volcano anywhere, ever.
Not so?
--
derek

Wow, George, thanks for all the links!

The always in the back of the mind question here is Mt. Rainer and will it go
the way Mt. St. Helens goes? The area below it being much more populated.. From
where I live there are two ways easiest to take to get over the mts. and head
to Seattle. One curves right around Mt. Rainer and can be a spectacular drive.
I've stopped driving that route... ;-)



kathy :-)
zone 7, SE WA state

"George" wrote in message . ..
"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
All right, all you people in the SE, with all your hurricanes - we, in the
PNW,
are pleased to announce one of our many volcanoes, Mt. St. Helen's, is now
producing lava!
http://tinyurl.com/43yn3
You can see the volcano here ~
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

kathy - who remembers Spirit Lake before it became
a mud pond.

I'm a geologist, and have been monitoring the volcano remotely (i.e., online)
since the first rumble started in September. This eruption and the Parkfield
earthquake in california lasty month have kept us all very busy and drooling
over the mountain of data these events have produced. Needless to say, the
current eruption will go down as the most closely watched, and the most
thoroughly studied volcanic event ever in the continental U.S. It has confirmed
many ideas on how these eruptions occur while startling us by showing clearly
how much more there is to discover. For those who like nice pictures in
deference to hard data, here are a few links to some fascinating high resolution
images of the eruption:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/MSH04/

The following image compares a visual image of the erupting lava with an
infrared view that shows the heat of the magma:

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/M...-13-04_med.jpg

For those who are interested in more technical aspects, here is a link to the
available near-real-time seismographs of the region:

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/GREEN/welcome.html

To use this page, scroll down and locate a particular sesimograph station (for
instance, Cedar Flats, at Mt. St. Helens) and click on the latest link for the
latest seismograph of tremor activity at that station.

For those who want even more technical information, try the following link,
which will take you to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network, and lots of
information on Mt. St. Helens and other volcanoes in the region:

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

Just for fun, take a look at this site if you want to see what really large
eruptions have done in the past compared to the 1980 Mt St Helens eruption:

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/...esia/toba.html

And this last link gives plots of earthquake locations on Mt St Helens,
time-depth plots, and tremor magnitude over time.

http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SE...lensep_mo.html

I can answer most any questions you may have, so feel free to ask. Enjoy.

Thanks for all that. I visited MSH in March 1999; it was fascinating.
We drove up to what I guess is Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center to
have a look at the "nasty" side of the volcano -- what incredible
devastation, even 19 years later! So, I've been keeping an eye on that
site the last few weeks.

The following day we went around the south side and explored about 30
minutes into the lower section of Ape Cave. We would have gone
farther, but we had kids with us, who'd already walked a good ways
uphill through deep snow to get there -- the road was only plowed to
the previous gate. Definitely worth it, though! Some day DW and I are
going back and do the whole Cave, top to bottom (assuming the mountain
doesn't blow sky-high and wreck the place, or something).

-- Kizhe

Derek Broughton wrote in message ...
George wrote:

I'm a geologist, and have been monitoring the volcano remotely (i.e.,
online)
since the first rumble started in September. This eruption and the
Parkfield earthquake in california lasty month have kept us all very busy
and drooling
over the mountain of data these events have produced. Needless to say,
the current eruption will go down as the most closely watched, and the
most
thoroughly studied volcanic event ever in the continental U.S.

Hey George - just because it _is_ in the continental US, I suspected it
would probably be the most thoroughly monitored volcano anywhere, ever.
Not so?

Hmmm....seems to me people have been watching Kilauea [sp?] pretty
closely for several decades.

-- Kizhe