Cascades - Disturbing Activity at St Helens & Rainier!!

Okay, I noticed in this pic a little while ago that it looked as if the left side of the upper part of the crater was beginning to smoke. But I wasn't sure if it might be a cloud.



But look at her now - it looks like the entire backside of the crater is smoking! HELLO NURSE!



This isn't good.

The first pic almost looks like a rockslide. So much volcanic dust up there. I was at the top of her in August of 2003 and rockslides are very common (especially in on that side falling into the crater), kicking up dust. However the second pic not to sure of almost looks like it very well could be letting off a little steam.

[edit on 22-7-2005 by silentlonewolf]

I was thinking that it was the smoke or steam (not sure what to call it) that was just going down like fog rolls when the conditions are right. But is is interesting to check in there a few times over the course of a day just to see what is going on.

Something was lit up overnight.

Especially around 5:50 AM EST as shown in this picture.



And there was a 2.9 quake 2 minutes prior.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

[edit on 23-7-2005 by Lanotom]

Holy cow Lan!

That's a biggie!

There was a 2.9 quake about an hour before that, Lan.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

You beat me to it. I was editing my post with that info. I estimated it to be 2 minutes prior.

Originally posted by Valhall
There was a 2.9 quake about an hour before that, Lan.

earthquake.usgs.gov...

Nah - there's 8 hours difference between Pacific and UTC, so that would have been about an hour before, right?

earthquake.usgs.gov...
This page states

Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 2:38:19 AM
= local time at epicenter

And the image says

Mount St. Helens-23 July 2005 - 02:40:48 Pacific Daylight Time

Originally posted by Lanotom


earthquake.usgs.gov...
This page states

Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 2:38:19 AM
= local time at epicenter

And the image says

Mount St. Helens-23 July 2005 - 02:40:48 Pacific Daylight Time

Thanks! I hate going across time zones. That's neat we have a pic to go with a seismic event!

I can't wait until they do a Sugar Bowl cam update in the archives -- I bet the rest of that part of the old fin fell with that quake this morning. Looking at the regular pictues today it looks like it is gone.

It seems like this thing has been rumbling for something like two years, judging from the post times. If that's the case, does that fit any kind of temporal sequence where a volcanoe actually erupted? I get the idea if she was going to blow for real it would've happened by now. Knowing the "normal" sequence and timing of events leading up to an eruption would be useful in analyzing St Helens & Rainer.

Actually that's a really good point, ktpr. Because I do believe that MSH went active in 1980 and kind of intermittently stayed active through 1982. That was the last period of the big eruption.

Things that make you go hmmm.

Another burp about 90 minutes ago.

i6.photobucket.com...

It is my personal opinion that we will see some MAJOR action at MSH before Monday morning.

Lit up again overnight for about 40 minutes. I saved the picture I'll post it later.

Gotta run now.

Now she's venting from a WHOLE NEW PLACE! The whole things is getting unstable I fear!

Here's the lava light from last night.



I still think a major show before Monday morning.

Originally posted by Valhall
Actually that's a really good point, ktpr. Because I do believe that MSH went active in 1980 and kind of intermittently stayed active through 1982. That was the last period of the big eruption.

Crap. That's not good at all. What was the size of that eruption? I dont' recall reading that anything was affected in 1982.

May be cheating a bit, but you can view the most current images and then go back through time on this page:

www.fs.fed.us...

I found the same one Lanotom posted in the above files:

The following image may change with time



If you start with the current one and then go back in time you can see how this evolved, and how long it lasted.




[edit on 24-7-2005 by UM_Gazz]

OH MY GOSH!!!! Now she's blowing out of the very top right hand side!
The second picture below is where I have marked all the different places we've seen her vent in the past week!