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[The Faceless Master]

just saw it on ABC

 

[sc0la]

msnbc says smoke and ash rising, no story yet.

 

[Baconäger]

cool

 

[ManaByte]

 

[Baconäger]

Volcano shits all over Dante's Peak.

 

[Nester]

Volcano Cam is down

That would be neat to watch.

 

[Phoenix]

This isn't really an erruption. More like a fart.

 

[Cherubae]

I'm sure there are news crews up there already

local news site http://www.kptv.com/ has a video located on their front page. Lots of black smoke.

 

[alejob]

HAHA! I just read this morning(I think it was on CNN.com) that the eruption was inminent(sp?). Guess they were right.

 

[Tenguman]

This isn't really an erruption. More like a fart.

Yup. It just released a puff a steam

 

[ManaByte]

Mt. St. Helens, pre 1980 eruption:

Mt. St. Helens, after 1980 eruption:

Mt. St. Helens is what Dante's Peak was based on.

 

[bishoptl]

I remember the last eruption - ash travelled to this side of the border. Blech.

 

[distantmantra]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Mount St. Helens

We can see some smoke in the horizon over here in Ellensburg (central part of the state).

 

[Shouta]

It was just a smoke fart. I'm watching the live footage here in Seattle.

 

[ManaByte]

I just hope that volcano in Yellowstone doesn't blow. It'd make the 1980 St. Helens eruption look like a fart in comparison.

It's doubtful St. Helens will ever blow as big as it did in 1980 since it now has that huge crater to let steam out. The 1980 eruption blew off the entire top of the mountain due to the pressure, it just isn't possible for it to build up that sort of pressure anymore with how the mountain is now.

 

[Idle Will Kill]

Terrorists?

 

[ManaByte]

There's a list of all of the volcanos in the western US.

Here's a comparison of Mt. St. Helens to what would happen in the caldera in Yellowstone blows (the graph at the bottom):

 

[Phoenix]

This is all a large Bush plot to take attention away from his terrible performance in teh debate!

 

[ManaByte]

This site gives a very good overview of Mt. St. Helens and the eruption in 1980 including a TON of photos of what the area looked like before it blew.

 

[ManaByte]

Just on Fox. They have someone on saying they are reading small tremors that means there is still magma moving around but they don't know if the magma has lost its gasses. So they don't know if it is still explodable yet. Either way, it won't be nearly as big as the 1980 eruption.

 

[RiZ III]

Coooool

 

[AirBrian]

 

[Hitokage]

I call bullshit. Dense ash from Mt. St. Helens fell at least as far Ellensburg, WA, which is over 90 miles away. My mom still has a jar of it. Not to mention volcanic effects reached for thousands of miles eastward.

It might be more useful if it also included density in its ranges instead of implying that dense ash, however much that might be, only fell in a 30 mile zone.

 

[Ripclawe]

RUN BITCHES RUN!!!!!!

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20041002/D85FIA0G0.html

SEATTLE (AP) - Government scientists raised the alert level Saturday for Mount St. Helens after its second steam eruption in two days was followed by a powerful tremor. They said the next blast was imminent or in progress, and could threaten life and property in the remote area near the volcano.

Hundreds of visitors at the building closest to the volcano - Johnston Ridge Observatory five miles away - were asked to leave. They went quickly to their cars and drove away, with some relocating several miles north to Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center.

The volcano alert of Mount St. Helens was raised to Level 3, which "indicates we feel an eruption is imminent, or is in progress," said U.S. Geological Survey geologist Tom Pierson from the observatory.

 

[ManaByte]

She's blowing now!

Time for some liquid hot MAG-MA.

 

[Ecrofirt]

So is it really erupting now?

 

[ConfusingJazz]

She's blowing now!

Time for some liquid hot MAG-MA.

Nope, just more steam, still no magma, but there is a buldge forming again, just like last time. The mountain is just being a cock tease.

 

[ManaByte]

So is it really erupting now?

Something "very hot" is making contact with the snow and ice.

 

[Ecrofirt]

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/ - very interesting picture there right now

 

[MIMIC]

 

[BigJonsson]

I wonder if that natural disaster delaying elections law will need to be used this year lol

What other natural disaster can top the hurricanes, earthquake and volcano?

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

What other disaster can top the hurricanes, earthquake and volcano?

Bush being re-elected?

 

[ConfusingJazz]

Bush being re-elected?

Ba dum TISH

 

[Shinobi]

:lol

 

[distantmantra]

We're going to get hit with volcanic ash in Ellensburg today if St. Helens decides to do anything. Oh boy.