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Hitchhiker
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 Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:19 pm Mt. St. Helens erupts! |
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| CBC.ca wrote: |
Mount St. Helens bursting with ash
Last Updated Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:11:38 EST
CBC News
SPOKANE, WASHINGTON - Mount St. Helens in Washington state has erupted, sending a plume of steam and ash 7,600 metres into the air.
* FROM December 24, 2004: Mount St. Helens regrows odd shapped top
The volcano has been active in previous months. A minor eruption lasted 24 minutes last October, sending up 3,000 metres of steam and ash last October. The U.S. Geological Survey detected magma moving below the surface, along with the increased presence of gases such as carbon dioxide, indicating a violent explosion but nothing happened.
It grew a dome top 80-stories high in December, which began expanding at a rate never seen before by scientists studying the volcano. Infrared images showed fresh lava was rising at temperatures of almost 800 C.
At the time, scientists said it would take 11 years before erupting the way it did back 1980, killing 57 people and covering towns more than 400 kilometres away with ash. |
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/03/08/St.Helens_050308.html
Interesting bit of current events. And in related news, it appears that scientists are diving along the coast of Vancouver because they think that there might be a volcano forming down there. They hope to improve their ability to track seismic events (and hence tsunamis) whether or not they find the volcano.
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Republican_Man
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| Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:45 pm |
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Wow.
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Beta6
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| Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:10 pm |
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oooohh I love volcanos! they are agg!
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Jeff Miller
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:49 am |
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I could actually see the ash plume from my apartment last night we even had a slight ashfall everyone was freaking because the latest erruptions from the valcano wasn't viewable from kelso.
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Birdy
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:01 pm |
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^ Scary..!  
I think it is beautiful, if you don't live next to it. I still think it's scary. I'm very interested in volcanos, almost obsessed   I've got a book, and experts in that book say that inactive volcanos are the dangerest, because people don't know they'll erupt. I'm glad they know it with Mount St. Helens. 
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borgslayer
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:20 pm |
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I'm a volano fanatic, I just like them they are so interesting.
I think this volcano will erupt with a major one in the future.
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Beta6
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:35 pm |
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A volcano is supposed to errupt in umm... africa I think? or some country over there on the coast... anyway, it is supposed to make a HUGE chunk of land fall into the ocean causing a huge tidle wave... and it will smash into Ny... at least 12 miles deep from the coast.
(excuse the spelling, I'm always in a rush when I post... (at work)
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borgslayer
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:43 pm |
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| Beta6 wrote: | A volcano is supposed to errupt in umm... africa I think? or some country over there on the coast... anyway, it is supposed to make a HUGE chunk of land fall into the ocean causing a huge tidle wave... and it will smash into Ny... at least 12 miles deep from the coast.
(excuse the spelling, I'm always in a rush when I post... (at work) |
Thats the Canary Island volcano or as its called Azores Volcano.
I know a lot of about volcanos.
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Beta6
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| Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:33 pm |
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| borgslayer wrote: | | Beta6 wrote: | A volcano is supposed to errupt in umm... africa I think? or some country over there on the coast... anyway, it is supposed to make a HUGE chunk of land fall into the ocean causing a huge tidle wave... and it will smash into Ny... at least 12 miles deep from the coast.
(excuse the spelling, I'm always in a rush when I post... (at work) |
Thats the Canary Island volcano or as its called Azores Volcano.
I know a lot of about volcanos. |
hehe, Well I'm glad u know more than I do about it, But seriously, how scarry is that? OMG what is gonna happen if NY gets hit? I have friends there
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