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Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the look-out-below dept.

jdray writes "The cube farm is all a twitter right now, as Mt. St. Helens is spewing out a steam plume, and you can see if from our building. The cam for the volcano seems to be down, but we just saw a news helicopter from KATU, one of our local news stations, headed that direction. They should have some content up shortly." Other readers suggest: KOIN, KOIN webcams, Kiro TV, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, or CNN.

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  1. nothing to see here folks by crapnutassneck · · Score: 5, Informative

    watched it out my window here at work and it was nothing. my folks are 25mi from it and got no ash. still more to come.

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  2. VolcanoCam by GeckoX · · Score: 2, Informative

    The volcano cam is not down perse, but it's been hit and miss all day. I'm currently looking at an image from 13:24:01 PDT this afternoon.

    Now that the link is front and center on /. I wouldn't expect to have much luck for a while ;)

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  3. Re:Video of the "eruption" by valkraider · · Score: 3, Informative

    mms://koin.com/10-1-04helens.wmv

  4. All over? by SiliconEntity · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the Post-Intelligencer:
    Small earthquakes had been occurring continuously in the crater since Sept. 23. They grew steadily stronger, finally reaching a magnitude of 3.3 Thursday and Friday, but the earthquakes quit after the eruption, said University of Washington seismologist Tony Qamar.

    "That makes us think this is the end of the eruption," Qamar said. "All this buildup was leading to that relatively small eruption."
  5. Re:We're all gonna die! by Cromac · · Score: 2, Informative

    With the wind blowing the ash to the W/SW I'm sure you're right. Longview or Portland might get a little dusting though.

  6. Re:Vocanoworld by flyboy974 · · Score: 2, Informative
    http://www.kgw.com/ has been having live video feeds if you have Windows Media Player.

    They've had their helicopter over the mountain for about 40 minutes now with a live feed, and have had some good shots of inside the volcano crater, looking at the hole that was created from the blast.

  7. can we slashdot kiro? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    kiro tv slide show

  8. Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano by srau · · Score: 3, Informative

    Mt. Hood poses a much larger danger to the Portland area. It's bigger than St. Helens, closer to Portland, and has a number of ski resorts and other people-attracting landmarks. Portland also has a volcano, presumably extinct, within the densely populated city limits - Mt. Tabor.

  9. KING 5 streaming live helicopter video by maokh · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.king5.com is currently offering a live helicopter stream of the scene, along with misc. USGS commentary.

  10. Who Was St. Helens? by kiwiokie · · Score: 3, Informative

    And the swing states continue to get hit by natural disasters, proving...what, exactly? While you ponder this question, you can read the shocking(ly boring) truth about who this St. Helens actually was here.

  11. Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano by Alomex · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mt. St. Helen is nowhere close to a densely populated area in the United States.

    First, it is a few hours drive from a major city (Seattle), and even then population density in the Seattle area is well below that of any place south of San Francisco on the California coast or north of Arlington, on the Eastern seaboard, all the way to Boston or so.

  12. Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano by Forbman · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...and neither is Mt. St. Helens.

    Mt. Hood and Mt. Rainier are, however.

    And then there is the area around Yellowstone Park.

  13. Re:neat-o by yeremein · · Score: 3, Informative
    Did you see that map of 2000 election results in Florida superimposed on the last 3 hurricanes' paths? Avoiding democratic counties?

    Not quite.