March 08, 2005
Mount St. Helens Erupting (Again)
Mount St. Helens spewed some ash this afternoon. Scroll to the extended entry to see pics from today's eruption and a live images from Johnston's Ridge observatory at Mount St. Helens. See, I'm interested in
all things that explode. After all, volcanos are nature's nuclear bombs!
Here is a live image of Mount St. Helens. If you don't see anything it's either a) night b) erupting. In case of b please evacuate. Thank you.
Here is a pic from this afternoon from MSNBC
And part of a KIROT story.
Mount St. Helens released a towering plume of ash on Tuesday.
The plume was accompanied by an earthquake of about 2.0 magnitude.
The volcano has vented ash and steam since last fall, when thousands of small earthquakes marked a seismic reawakening of the 9,677-foot mountain.
Late afternoon television footage showed the plume billowing thousands of feet into the air, then drifting slowly to the northeast.
The ash explosion happened around 5:25 p.m., about an hour after a 2.0 magnitude quake rumbled on the east side of the mountain, said Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
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I'm REALLY not trying to steal traffic, like I could ever. I found some high-res pics and did a bit of editing on them. The pictures can be found at
YaThinkSo.com
Props to the original photographers given.
Posted by: Vonski at March 08, 2005 10:22 PM (9BReq)
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During the first eruption I was in art school at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon. We were all at a school picnic probably not more than 30 miles from Mt. St. Helens, and possibly as close as 20 miles, on the day it finally erupted and old Harry Truman went from being an intriguing human interest story to a total fool. But because of the prevailing winds and other factors those of us at the picnic didn't know about the eruption until after we had returned home to Portland. Once the winds changed to put Portland under the cloud it was a MESS. Grit and dust in EVERYTHING. I had to change the air filter on my car about two or three times a week.
Posted by: Demosophist at March 09, 2005 10:18 AM (Dfdj0)
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