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Molehill Mountain Detected From Space

Posted by michael on from the good-titles-make-good-submissions dept.

SEWilco writes: "A four-inch mound was detected in Oregon recently near the Three Sisters volcanoes. Unlike a molehill, it's 10 miles across and was detected by radar from a satellite. The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory compared two radar images which were taken four years apart and produced this image of the uplift. A USGS statement says the cause is uncertain, but a new pool of magma is suspected. There are no signs of pending eruptions."

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  1. Except by fisternipply · · Score: 3
    There are no signs of pending eruptions."

    Except for the giant pool of magma forming underneath the pacific northwest, that could be a sign.