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Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash
Wynken de Word writes "Months after the preliminary signs starting showing, Washington State's Mount St. Helens is sending a plume of steam and ash 7,600 metres into the air as of Tuesday, 17:25 PST. See the U.S. Geological Survey site for more updates and, come daylight, check out the Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam."
This story is just a bunch of hot air.
Well, some people would say steam deserves it, but shooting Ash is just wrong.
Thanks folks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waiterbot.
I live less than 50 miles from St Helens, and I heard about this on Slashdot first.
Maybe Allah really DOES hate the Americans!
No, just the Washingtonian..ers.
How does your wife feel about being called a Mount?
...by someone whining they weren't given enough warning?
Cynical, perhaps, but there's a lawyer suing NOAA because they didn't give enough warning about a possible tsunami in the Indian Ocean.
Woo hoo! I'm watching it right now from my back door! Wait, no I'm not, it's dark here in Seattle.
What use is it if the thing blows at 5:30pm? The local news needs footage, man!
Kip Hawley is an idiot.
I wish.
I check daily to see if its opened up again. Hopefully it will before Mother's Day, but not bloody likely.
Too bad there's no cover to jump behind when a heli flies by up on the mountain.
Guess I'll have to wait until the morning to check out the cam! :-P Man, and I actually clicked it too...
Surely this can be linked to Iran...
Paul Grosfield - the quicker picker upper.
my photoblog entry tonight:
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These are andesitic volcanos, not tholiitic.
The lavas are viscous. Unless you are in the rim of the volcano or are flying over the ridge with an infrared camera you won't see lava from St. Helens.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
NWCN site has a video the "Take a look inside the crater" http://www.nwcn.com/ link shows... well inside the crater. You have to sign up.
Heh... no picture, just the usual red/green/blue dashes indicating "no signal", i.e. "the camera melted" Doesn't sound fun.
How close is Mount St. Helens to Redmond?
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This happened before...quite recently in the grand scheme of things. Lives were lost, lives were ruined, towns destroyed. There's a small vial of dust sitting on a shelf in my parents' house.
I'd be interested in hearing about the new technology since then as well as what they plan to do. Detailed info seems scarce on the geological site.
Our volcano is blasting stuff 25000 feet up.
(it sounds more impressive if you use feet)
I have climbed Mt. St. Helen's about 10 times.
Time to climb it again!
It's too late now. You might have to wait awhile to be hit with a plume of superheated steam and ash.
Very far.
Here are some pictures taken today. They show the ash plume.
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http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Images/
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
Probably aren't any yet. Any flow should have been confined to the crater and obscured by ash and steam. The event came just before local sunset. Things may be clearer in the morning.
The Mt. St. Helens webcam sometimes picks up the infared glow of exposed lava after dark. It went offline Friday, but service was fortunately restored this afternoon -- just hours before St. Helens burped. Check to see whatever can be seen here. My site also has some background on the webcam.
KPTV has some impressive stills of the ash plume here.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
You're both wrong. He hates you both. Individually. :|
Not to mention it's currently nighttime where the camera is located. Duh.
We did a video last year for the National Film Challenge which is a good depiction of what we thought an eruption should look like. :)
www.fwstudios.com
It was a fun video to do and we did it in only about 60 hours. (that is, wrote, rehearsed, edited, and produced)
-Luke
Damn Global Warming
You're both wrong. He hates you both. Individually. :|
You're right. Now excuse me while I go off and cry.
Now, if they get consumed by a volcano, I'm just going to say it was random.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
it's blowing red, blue, green and black ash EVERYWHERE!!!
"I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false." - L. Ron Hubbard Jr.
Yes, "Washingtonians" is the usual term.
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I guess it would work better as a link.
Cascades Volcano Observatory
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein
All I see is black on that camera...it's as if the view was obscured by... err... steam and ash.
By looking at the CBC site it appears they took the picture from Victoria, BC. Did anyone see it like that?
By road. Maybe 100 miles as the crow flies. The volcano would have to take out Seattle first I think.
Mt Ruapehu, (vulcanocam) one of our vulcanos, became active for about a year in 1995/1996 and is now pregnant with a lahar. We're probably about a year away from birth. The event is highly anticipated, with special communication links set up so that the neighbours can know as soon as possible.
(No disrespect for the victims of Tangiwai is intended by the light-hearted nature of this post.)
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.
Rainier is much closer.
Mount St. Helens, Washington Crater, Dome, and Eruption Images>
Maybe Allah really DOES hate the Americans!
Allah: So help me me, I hate Americans. I know, I'm going to show my displeasure by giving them an exciting but not too dangerous display of my might.
If that doesn't work, I'll send another tsunami to Asia and make them give charity!
...does it run Linux?
CBC News just reported about 4000 small earthquakes about 200km off the west coast of Vancouver Island, none no more than 5.x on the Richter scale.
They believe this may be related to the growth of a new underwater volcano, and hope to see it's initial erruption. This is almost certainly connected to the eruption at Mt. St. Helens, and I suspect related to the large earth quakes in south-east asia in December.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Maybe Allah really DOES hate the Americans!
:)
No, just the Washingtonian..ers.
Some one modded the parent insightful , now that IS funny
I was flying home from SEA -> SJC this evening and saw the thing happen from 20,000 feet. The ash shot up and within a few minutes was at the same altitude as our still-climbing 737. Within a few minutes the ash was well above our altitude and the Captain came on and stated that it seemed to him to be well above 30,000 feet. Needless to say, we flew well clear of the plume.
That being said, it was an amazing sight to see this huge jet of ash go so high, so quickly. The late afternoon sun lit it just right and I really wish I had had a camera.
I told helen to relax. But she wouldn't listen.
I knew it was just a matter of time before she blew her top.
Thank you, I'm hear each tuesday thru thursday.
DarkMantle I been bored, so I started a blog.
I wonder if we'll have a volcano-relief telethon if erupts.
My digital rights don't need management.
Here comes St. Helens
It's a mountain that reels
It's a mountain and it's gonna be blowin' up sometime.
It's gainin' on you so you better look alive.
It's busy revvin' up a powerful mud slide.
And when the odds are against it
And there's lava work to do
You bet your life St. Helens
Will see it through.
Flee St. Helens
Flee St. Helens
Flee St. Helens, Flee!
There shouldn't be any visible lava flow. The best you will get is possibly a bit of lava oozing out at the surface - probably already crusted over, so it would just look like a rock with growing cracks. It has to do with the lava type. The lava in Hawaii, that flows very well, has much less dissolved gases and is at a higher tempurature than the lava in Mt. St. Helens. The dissolved gases is the really important part that make it more explosive. As a gaseous magma rises towards the surface, the pressure from the overlying rock lessens. Like in a soda bottle when you open the top (thus reducing pressure) the dissolved gasses bubble out to the surface. The gasses in magma have nowhere to go. The surface is clogged with solidified magma and is sealed. So, when the gasses inside the volcano dissolve, they have no volume to expand into. So the pressure goes UP UP UP! (like in a soda bottle, if you shake it.) Eventually, this pressure builds up so high that it goes KABLOOIE! and blows the piece of cooled rock that seals the to of the volcano off (this is called the Plug.) The only lava you'd see is after the plug gets blown off and while the plug re-forms.
Some one modded the parent insightful , now that IS funny :)
Well, they DO allow Microsoft to reside inside their borders. If I were a god I would certianly hate them.
This was reported 24 years ago!
Does this mean that Mr. Gates has finally created the One Ring?
If so, I sure hope penguins have furry feet. Fedora Baggins and Samwise Gentoo can save us.
The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
/ I'll also accepts furlongs per bushel.
The estate of Jackson Pollock should sue!
Help fight continental drift.
I know I laugh every time a bunch of those nuts on the other side of the planet get wiped out by an earthquake or tsunami.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04 /Monitoring/plume_in_the_evening_8march05.html
This has some pretty good photos, as well as a picture with (MS Paint?) editing describing what's what.
The photos are taken from a remote camera on the mountain that takes a picture every 2.5 minutes. This is as good as it gets.
That's where I got it, that's my story, it's not the whiskey, and I am sticking to it!
Actually Dictionary.com says smitten is OK - although I find the "Did you mean smutted?" amusing.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
The cnn article said: "Glowing lava was visible inside the mountain's crater after the disturbance, which occurred at about 5:20 p.m." If they saw the lava, they should have pictures as well. The cnn article shows a picture inside the crater, but it doesn't show any glowing lava. Hopefully someone has a picture that does show the lava.
"Eventually, this pressure builds up so high that it goes KABLOOIE!"
Is this the technical term?
Bruce Campbell is doing. All with being shot and all.
"Me claiming Satan exist is just as valid as you claiming an atom exists" - 1inChrist
That could be hot gas. Look up the words "nueé ardente".
Andesitic lavas have more water in them than tholiitic. That is why volcanos on or near continental margins explode violently and lavas from island chains only shoot ~30 meters into the air.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Melt Bill Gates, Melt! Wooooohooo!
Joke people, joke.
I expect, being a god and all, that you'd probably not give a rats ass about petty little things like humans or their affairs. (Seems to be how they work.)
I live in Portland, Oregon, so I saw the eruption when it was taking place from my front porch.
It really wasn't very exciting. It was just a bunch of smoke and steam, around the size of several a few months ago.
Despite it being the sole story on the local news, nobody is going to die or even be injured. Nobody is going to care after tomorrow.
The volcano is regrowing a lava dome, and the dome is increasing in size. There's no visible lava, or anything more than the normal pickup truck worth of rock that's been added to the dome every second since October.
I don't get what the big deal is. It's a bit of smoke, that's all.
...then maybe we'd have some decent skiing out here. 2' of fresh ash anyone? :)
Ok, so for others, not so near... If you stare at the web cam shot long enough -- and try to look sort of past your screen -- you can see it in 3D.
No? Just keep staring...
Quick, cut off some heads to appease him!!!!!
Hmmm, are you sure you were looking in the right direction?
I live in Beaverton, and while I couldn't see the peak (hidden behind the West Hills), I could tell the plume was a _lot_ bigger than any of the others since it started up again.
Plus, from what I've heard, the dome is growing at the rate of a dump truck load each second (gotta be an order of magnitude more than a pickup truck). If it keeps up at this rate, then the new dome will be peeking above the rim within a few years.
That would be kind of a neat thing to see from downtown PDX...
All that urgent cramping and pressure.....
The mad dash to seek relief.....
And in the end it ends up being a big fart.
Well is'nt that andesitastic.
Mother Earth pops a zit...
And here we humans had the nerve to think that we were powerful, or something. I am told anecdotally that Pompeii unleashed more total energy than all of the atomic bomb tests to date.
C|N>K
We're Washingtonians
You are so boring that when I see you my feet go to sleep.
About ten times? Aren't you sure?
Here's an ominous image that shows some orange lines presumably inside the crater. I am not a geologist (at least not professionally) but I would guess that it is probably remnants of the collapsed lava dome (and technically lava).
On a side note, there are some amusing pictures from Portland on this site. Wish I could have seen it in person.
Stupid mods. The lava dome has collapsed! The articles say that. There is a good reason to believe that there might be visible lava at the surface (probably not a flow). Modding the parent offtopic was very narrow minded.
Don't know about pictures of the lava, but see here for a post to video of a helicopter flight around the edge of the crater. I watched it and there was indeed visible lava.
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This is the cute vorpal bunny virus, copy to your sig or runaway, runaway in fear!
Not completely true. You will see lava, but as you stated, it is heavily viscous, and therefore will not be flowing with enough strength and volume to actually spill forth from the dome.
"M$H Erupts! Covers M$ Headquarters in Java!"
Hell yah they are! They will kick your ass!! I saw this one dude got stuck in the lavas and he just fucking melted...
What?
Oh. Nevermind.
Look up the words "nueé ardente".
All I got was some porn. Blech.
Months after the preliminary signs starting showing, Washington State's Mount St. Helens is sending a plume of steam and ash 7,600 metres into the air.
It's incorrect to imply, as the posting does, that the earlier activity is "preliminary", and that now the real action is going to get going. We are, in all likelihood, in a dome-building phase. It will have natural variation, times of activity and times of quiescence, just as the volcanic system has on a geologic time scale. There is no reason to expect a large explosive event in the near future.
-David Hirsch Asst. Professor of geology
USGS Vancouver says it was actually 36,000 ft.
hummm. Blowing lots of hot steam. Not really doing much of anything. Doing no good for anybody but itself.
Does not sound like Iran. Sounds more like on the other side of the planet.
The Juan de Fuca faultline news is close to 2 weeks old... They're now preparing dives to observe the ocean floor. Mt. St. Helens has been grumbling and burping since last October. Related? Probably not... different faultlines = different geologic plumbing. Just because these events happended in close chronological proximity doesn't provide any evidence that they're connected.
What is interesting is that there was absolutely ZERO warning. There had been some minor tremors in the hours before, but nothing that would indicate something on this scale.
Personally, I think someone slipped the volcano some lima beans.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
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It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Evil geniuses always tap into volcanic power. Bill is just making more room in his secret layer.
Get with the program, it's IANAG
This is totally the work of HAARP. Allow me to enlighten you by slashdotting the first poor bastard to be unlucky enough to pop up in the google results.
Yes, Microsoft is still standing. Thanks, and have a good night. I'll be here all week.
I used to live in Texas... we saw things like this after every Chili cookoff!
Help save the critically endangered Blue Iguana
We're Washingtonians
In Oregon we call you the "Californians of the North."
Holy crap, an informative post.
Thanks.(not being sarcastic)
"This is a static image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory." (my emphasis.)
Very funny - now turn the lights back on so we can see the volcano...
Apart from the infrared glow from the lava flows last year, I've only even seen static from the camera in my timezone.
I prefer the White Island Crater VolcanoCam - despite predictions of an acidic death, Dino lives!
for Nerds or for Americans?
I'm glad to hear that Steam got shot. It's a crappy palladium-lite as far as I'm concerned. Maybe now that it'd dead I'll get around to buying Half-Life 2.
But Ash getting shot was great loss. You'd think that if he could survive the army of darkness, he could survive a volcano!
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
There wasn't really any lava in 1980, just pyroclastics. Since that time, new lava domes have been forming, made of a high-silica lava more viscous than tooth paste--this stuff doesn't really flow, it just slowly pushes its way up to the surface.
Might be a good time for all WA companies to review their Disaster Recovery solution(s). WA is a hot spot for earthquakes and volcanic activities.
I took pictures of the ash eruption from a clearing near my home that has a clear view of Mt St Helens.
http://www.abraysive.com/fotomatic/
Today's headline: Volcano shoots steam and ash.
Tomorrow's headline: Bears found defecating in woods
Friday's headline: Pope discovered to be a Catholic.
We did not have this guy protecting the volcano. Unfortunately he stands guard in New Zealand...
an ac wrote:"Try stepping out of the basement once in a while"
And get killed by falling rocks and ash?!?! No thanks! I'd rather live in my world where I saw the headline and thought that somebody had shot the Halflife game management system and that nice man with the chainsaw from Army of Darkness.
In the Northeast we call all of you "hippies." You might as well all be Californians.
Disclaimer: I am a citizen of the United States, AND an American.
I also take offense at how you generalize 350 million citizens of the US, and many more that are Americans
(hint: Canada is in "America" too, as it's a CONTINENT)
I also live in Portland, and quite frankly, the complete lack of warning that an event like this happened kinda gives me the willies.
How's the weather up there on your high horse? Same as it is down here? Ok.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
"about 36,000 feet" so some freak had to convert it into meters (what ever the hell those are).
Your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Film at 11
A most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a bit.
This article would be more interesting if it read "Mount St. Helens Shoots Load"
Now that I live in Oregon I find it funny that the news organizations are constantly saying "Pacific NORTHWEST" as if to distance themselves from california. And there's lots of news coverage of stuff in Washington and Seattle. I can't remember ever seening any kind of coverage of Portland or Oregon matters on Washington news channels.
I live just 30 miles northwest of helens, with a 45 degree view into the crater. I have a good pic of a steam puff that showed up the day before. I'd upload it, but I fear a slashdotting.
I can see the mountain from the computer I'm sitting at. Though it's pretty boring right now.
I didn't know it was erupting until my wife saw it on the news. I was busy programming on my computer in my office. (This computer is the "family" internet connected computer, in the kitchen)
"That's so plausible, I can't believe it!" - Leela
Here's a shot of the "whaleback" with one "scar" that raised some dust on 2/22, and further disintegration on 2/25. The "whaleback" is gradually coming apart.
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
Incorrect. KGW TV had a chopper flying around that caught video of a lava flow, and I'm pretty sure they weren't in the rim or using an infrared camera.
See for yourself.
I am scientifically inaccurate.
The parent article got modded redundant and I got to metamoderate. As far as I can tell, the first similar article appeared about two minutes before this one, so technically this one _was_ redundant, so I metamodded as "Fair". However, both articles were about 10 minutes after the original posting, so it may really be an issue of who hit the Enter key first. Luck of the draw, I guess.
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