Mount St. Helens Lets Off Some Steam

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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Theres one in Mexico also.

[bludstone]

Mexico's 'Fire Volcano' Erupts, No Evacuations Yet

KABLOOEY!

Stock up on pantyhose

[PIPBoy3000]

When the last one hit, things like pantyhose were used to keep ash from destroying their engines.

I live a couple hours south of Portland and we got only a light dusting after the first eruption. My wife lived further north and was cleaning ash off of cars for days.

Eruption

[Mark of THE CITY]

Supposedly this one may throw rock and ash up to 3 miles away. The Forest Service camera is 5 miles off, and the 1980 explosion threw ask over 250 miles.

I haven't been up there but did hike up Lassen Peak in 2000. Much of that area is still bare from the eruptions that occurred around 1915.

Re:Mild volcanic event happens on volcano

[Kethinov]

Most volcanos vent steam and gases. This is a non-story isn't it?

Most volcanos aren't sitting near densely populated areas in the United States.

neat-o

[recharged95]

Geologically, this is fascinating. For the last few weeks, high concentration of hurricanes (on both coasts), a few earthquakes (on both coasts), now dual volcano events. I wonder if the collection and fusion of all this data is gonna identify that some global event happened within the environment?

The past may have had extreme natural events similarly, but were they so "focused" like in the last 3 months?

Maybe the earth had to reboot itself due to some Y2K issue?

This isn't it

[Teahouse]

Ring of fire activity is up all around the ring. From Japan to Mexico to California, there is a lot of seismic and volcanic activity still going on. St. Helens is just a symptom of something else. I am betting something big happens in the next 3 months. Either an inactive volcano blows, or there's a big EQ in the ring, but something is going to happen. 6.2 in Mexico, 6.0 in California, 7.2 in Japan, St. Helens burps, small quake activity in Alaska and the cascades is up, and Hawaii is looking at Mauna Loa going very active. All of this within the last month, and all of it unusial. I doubt this burp from St' Helens is going to be the total end result.