[Kazan]

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/

[Deepblue]

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.

[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

[Night Hammer]

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

[Ace]

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

[Kazan]

well historically speaking Rainier has sent debris flows all the way to Puget Sound

[Ace]

...and Tacoma is on Pudget Sound.

[Kazan]

i know the geology better than the geography

[Rictor]

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.

[Deepblue]

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.

[Kazan]

deepblue: you've never heard of Kiluea have you? you can get within like 5 meters of the lava flows safely

[Deepblue]

Up close as in in the crater.

[Deepblue]

Besides, St. Helen's isn't a dome volcano, it doesn't ooze lava, it explodes. Pyroclastic flow. Wheee!

[Kazan]

yes i know St Helen's is Andesitic and Kiluea is Basaltic -- i was just getting you for generalizations

[Deepblue]

Incineration is not a generalization when it comes to pyroclastic flow.

[Black Wolf]

/me understands this thread. w00t for geology!

[ChronoReverse]

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.

[Bobboau]

argh! head for the hills!
...or actualy, the hills might not be the best place, now that I think of it...

[aldo_14]

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  Damn hills.

[Ransom]

The hills have eyes... they're always watching...