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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:Oh so what! by HaloZero · · Score: 3, Insightful

    We're not worried about where the volcano/mountain might be going. We're moreso worried about everyone who (perhaps stupidly, albeit) lives on , around, or near it.

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