02 October 2004

[pdx_life] Volcano DefCon 4

Looks like the situation at St Helens has changed dramatically.

This AP Story (via Yahoo! News)
portends much more serious activity.

Once again, I missed a steam blast. Loo-wit, I'm going to get you...!

Anyway, the quality of the earth movement has changed fundamentally. The flurry of earthquakes in the past week indicated rocks being broken up. That could have been mere steam. The nomenclature now used is the word tremor, which apparently isn't so much a mass of 'quakes, but a single very long rumble brought on by a major sustained process-such as the movement of magma.

Oh, hell, read the AP story. Explains it better than I could.

Watch the peak!

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