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Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 06:52:09 pm
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=71467


Actial Text of USGS Advisory
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/2004/current_updates_20040929.html


USGS VolcanoCam for Mt St Helens
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 29, 2004, 06:58:10 pm
I wonder what ash rain is like... Ah well might get to find out, but at least its not Ranier thats blowing its top off. I cant even see St. Helens from my house.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 07:01:40 pm
St Helens won't blow again like she did in 1980 -- the lava isn't solid enough to allow for that kind of pressure buildup for a pyroclastic flow

all of the region better hope this activity doesn't spread to Ranier -- because if that one goes it _will_ be huge
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Night Hammer on September 29, 2004, 07:03:27 pm
I had an aunt up there in 1980 and she lived about 80 miles away from St. Helens and she used to talk about how the ash blakced out the sky for like a day n a half
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Ace on September 29, 2004, 07:30:33 pm
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Originally posted by Kazan
St Helens won't blow again like she did in 1980 -- the lava isn't solid enough to allow for that kind of pressure buildup for a pyroclastic flow

all of the region better hope this activity doesn't spread to Ranier -- because if that one goes it _will_ be huge


You can say good bye to Tacoma when Ranier blows... The whole Nisqually valley area will be hit by the vaporized glacier water. Some pretty nasty flash flooding.

But I'd rather deal with a few earthquakes and volcanoes than tornadoes and hurricanes :p
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 07:36:02 pm
well historically speaking Rainier has sent debris flows all the way to Puget Sound
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Ace on September 29, 2004, 07:37:09 pm
...and Tacoma is on Pudget Sound.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 07:41:56 pm
i know the geology better than the geography
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Rictor on September 29, 2004, 07:57:08 pm
There's a life webcam up somewhere of the volcano.

You know, sitting safely in my apartement, several thousand kilometers away, I somehow have the desire to experience a huge volcanic eruption, just to see what its like. I dunno, it would probably be really cool.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 29, 2004, 08:03:36 pm
Up close? You would be incinerated. Further away? You could be scared, or you could love the fact that your witnessing a extremely massive explosion.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 08:22:04 pm
deepblue: you've never heard of Kiluea have you? you can get within like 5 meters of the lava flows safely
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 29, 2004, 08:29:13 pm
Up close as in in the crater. :P
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 29, 2004, 08:29:54 pm
Besides, St. Helen's isn't a dome volcano, it doesn't ooze lava, it explodes. Pyroclastic flow. Wheee!
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Kazan on September 29, 2004, 08:34:35 pm
yes i know St Helen's is Andesitic and Kiluea is Basaltic -- i was just getting you for generalizations
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 29, 2004, 08:41:44 pm
Incineration is not a generalization when it comes to pyroclastic flow.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Black Wolf on September 29, 2004, 08:58:28 pm
/me understands this thread. w00t for geology!
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: ChronoReverse on September 30, 2004, 12:28:56 am
Hmm, when St. Helens last exploded, it was supposedly heard up where I am too.  Would be cool if something like that happened again.  Of course I have no idea what the implications of such an explosion would be like.

Too bad it can't explode like last time it seems.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Bobboau on September 30, 2004, 01:31:13 am
argh! head for the hills!
...or actualy, the hills might not be the best place, now that I think of it...
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: aldo_14 on September 30, 2004, 02:57:20 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
argh! head for the hills!
...or actualy, the hills might not be the best place, now that I think of it...


Yeah, it's the hills that'll get you :nervous:  Damn hills.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Ransom on September 30, 2004, 03:44:45 am
The hills have eyes... they're always watching...
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Deepblue on September 30, 2004, 09:24:33 am
Riiiiiight. It hasnt exploded yet so this might be a good sign, or a bad one.
Title: Urgent for NW US users: Level 2 Volcanic Alert for Mt St Helens
Post by: Bobboau on September 30, 2004, 12:58:30 pm
the longer it takes the worse it is