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Mount Saint Helens Behaving Oddly

Posted by michael on from the rated-u-for-uh-oh dept.

jd writes "According to the New Scientist magazine, Mount Saint Helens has built in the space of a few months a lava dome larger than one that had been built over the previous six years. The growth rate is about four cubic meters a second. If the dome keeps growing at this rate, geologists expect it to collapse, triggering a major eruption. Surface activity is not the only thing geologists are monitoring. Seismographs of the volcano show dozens of tremors a minute."

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  1. Re:Mount Saint Helens Behaving Oddly by drakethegreat · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't appreciate you showing a lack of respect or regard for Washington. I grew up there and I love it. If any state deserves to be removed from the map its Texas.

  2. Re:Isn't this how the 1980 eruption happened? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    or maybe it's just how volcanoes work...

  3. Animated GIF of what's happening.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    There's some brilliant web coverage of this topic available. Just look at the animated GIF (via CORALIZED link) at

    the site http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov.nyud.net:8090

    to see how dramatic this is. For more, including the GIF, see:

    http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov.nyud.net:8090

    (For those who don't know: The above links to an automatically cached version of the pages, as described here. If for some reason the coralized links are don't work, you can try the orignal by changing the link from http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov.nyud.net:8090/something. .. to http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/something..., but this is so well presented they don't deserve a /.'ing, so try the cached version first.)