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Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased

DarkHand writes "Mount St. Helens has become even more unstable in the last few hours. The U.S. Geological Surveys Cascades Volcano Observatory has increased the volcanic alert around the volcano to level 2 and released a press release: 'Over night, seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has accelerated significantly, which increases our level of concern that current unrest could culminate in an eruption. We are increasing the alert level to the second of three levels [...]. Earthquakes are occurring at about four per minute. The largest events are approaching Magnitude 2.5 and they are becoming more frequent. All are still at shallow levels in and below the lava dome that grew in the crater between 1980 and 1986. This suggests that the ongoing intense earthquake activity has weakened the dome, increasing the likelihood of explosions or perhaps the extrusion of lava from the dome.' The most recent readings at the SEP seismograph stationed on the lava dome itself are totally saturated. The ground is now literally constantly rumbling."

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  1. Exciting! by samsmithnz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love Volcanos... but then I live on the East coast so they won't directly affect me :).

    1. Re:Exciting! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I love Global Warming ... but then I live on the North Pole so ... shit, where's it gone?

  2. pist frost? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist psot?

  3. Curious by faragon · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Volcano
    2. Shake it up babe
    3. Profit!

  4. Frist pSot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fanat1c Jknown

  5. saturated by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The most recent readings at the SEP seismograph stationed on the lava dome itself are totally saturated.

    And with our help, their servers will be saturated, too.

  6. Born to love Volcanoes by jpsst34 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    born to love volcanoes seen em on pbs
    born to love volcanoes my apartment is a mess
    somewhere under that pile of clothes lies a whole $10 bill
    telephones are ringing in a land called pbs
    fat lady is singing in a land called pbs
    maybe she loves volcanoes too i'll just have to take a guess
    she looks like a little volcano with her red hair and brown dress
    born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes
    born to love volcanoes seen em on pbs
    born to love volcanoes this city is a mess
    somewhere on a steam vent sits a man without a home
    tribute to carl sagan
    tonight on pbs
    alister cooke is beggin' tonight on pbs
    maybe he needs my money more than a man without a home
    he wants to make a documentary on the footwear of ancient rome
    born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes
    born to love volcanoes seen em on pbs
    born to love volcanoes this country is a mess
    every 2 minutes a girl gets pregnant cause no one gives them the facts
    intellectuals are phoning to a land called pbs
    some old man is droning in a land called pbs
    maybe he needs my money more than a bunch of pregnant teens
    a toll-free number to call in my money appears upon my screen
    born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes born to love volcanoes volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes born to love volcanoes

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  7. Re:Scary, yet cool. by Cat_Byte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the antichrist is leader of a one world government and the whole world wanders after him. He comes in as a lamb..so that would be under the pretext of a peaceful man. That is not the United States. Someone attacks us and heads roll, countries fall, and leaders go into hiding. It also states that the one world government would be without the wings of the eagle. I'm all for pulling out of that crap. They don't do anything. 10 years of drawing new lines in the sand in Iraq did alot of good. I'm not saying I completely agree with how it was done, but I do completely disagree with how it was handled the 8 years prior. We need a one world religion as well. Thanks to the muslim extremists that will probably happen to get rid of radicals. The temple mount has to be rebuilt and a one world currency comes into effect...damn Euro....its ugly.

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  8. Re:You think Mt. St. Helens was big... by hackstraw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it were to erupt again -- fortunately it does so rarely, about once every 600k years -- it would cover most of the Western US in ash and if it did so without warning, would kill millions of people.

    Bush: Quick! Lets remove that Mother Nature from power in the name of the War on Terror! She might use her weapons of mass destruction on us sometime in the next 600,000 years.

    Cheney: Dumbass, there's no profit in that. (shakes his head and thinks to himself "No wonder this guy needed people to buy out his companies and give him jobs")

  9. Re:Mt St Helens seismic and other info by TopShelf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You really should quit using Windows ME...

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