Mt. St. Helens: 2 earthquakes/minute

[SitFlyer]

It's erupting NOW

[Jon P. Inghram]

That'd explain why the webcam link went dead.

[SitFlyer]

Tiny eruption ended

[Jon P. Inghram]

Annoyingly enough, even the links to the real time seismographs I had been monitoring appear to have been destroyed (by the internet traffic that is.)

[SitFlyer]

They're having a harmonic tremor within the mountain right now

[Jon P. Inghram]

Yeppers, my "real-time" links are recovering from the inital hit, should be intersting to see what happens. Watching a live web TV feed, they're about to do an interview with a USGS guy.

[Jon P. Inghram]

They had a helicopter flying near it doing an IR scan when it erupted and it appears there asn't any high temperature activity, just a steam explosion with a little ash.

They also had a crew on the other side of the mountain when it erupted, but they were ok (other than rather shaken I'm sure.)

[Jon P. Inghram]

Well, it quieted down for a bit but the quakes are starting back up, looks like it's not quite finished.

The long sustained signal just after 12:00 PDT is the steam eruption:



Interesting that the sensor that's actually in the crater held out during the eruption only to malfunction or something a few hours later. It's still working a bit though, the strongest post-eruption quakes still register on it a little:

[Technoid]

Originally posted by gt40
LOL, I remember calling those first Hyundai's 'how-u-wanna-die's',
with the brake springs that would let go and lock up a rear wheel while driving.

ROTFLMAO

[Jon P. Inghram]

If it's not right erupting right at this moment, it'll be doing it very soon, the quakes have changed into a constant tremor, right after noon PDT again too:

[Jon P. Inghram]

Stupid volcano, I said erupt, damn you! Only thing that happened was a little puff of something on the east side of the crater, and that was probably just a landslide or a gust of wind kicking up dust. It's a good bet magma is moving under there somewhere though, tremors like that rarely mean anything else.

[edit] Apparently there was a little steam emission, the web cam didn't catch it when I was looking I guess, but I did see the landslide afterwards.

[SitFlyer]

Scientists: St. Helens Eruption Imminent

[Dr Mordrid]

Yup....it's up to "major eruption" now. Guess I'll have to give Margie's uncle a call and see if he regrets retiring from the Navy yet

Dr. Mordrid

[The PIT]

Well it erupted yesterday and no one noticed or where they doing action replays on the web cam????

[Jon P. Inghram]

They don't count anymore until it really explodes or lava oozes out.