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Possible 'Hazardous Event' At Mount St. Helens

Posted by timothy on from the stock-up-on-little-jars dept.

babynerd writes "Seismologists believe there's an increased likelihood of a hazardous event at Mount St. Helens due to recent changes in the mountain's seismic activity. That increased activity on Sunday prompted the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington to release a "notice of volcanic unrest.""

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  1. Caldera by TWX · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "To the public: You don't even know what caldera means, do you. Yes, you there reading /. The one who thinks it's just the old name for the SCO group. That's right, I mean you, the one who only knows what a gnu is because of the FSF logo."

    Are you referring to that landform created through planetary vulcanological processes comprising a large portion of the plateau that Utah is made of, which the software development company based in that region named themselves after?

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    Do not look into laser with remaining eye.