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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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    .-=Wit is educated insolence=-. -Aristotle
  2. Re:Video of the "eruption" by valkraider · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  3. 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."
  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.