Mt. St. Helens Live Cam

[Turtle]

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/

 

Updates every 15 to 20 minutes I think. :) :hihi: :) Enjoy

[Tormod]

Thread moved! Anything else while I'm at it? ;)

[Turtle]

Looks like she's spewing steam right now! Friday, March 4 2:16pm Pacific:eek:

[Turtle]

Major steam eruption right now! I can see it from my house; high, very full. Absolutely so cool!

[Turtle]

Heres a link to the seismogram trace from a station on the South flank of the mountain. The main event begins at 5:36 (a black trace line) & lasts about 12 minutes . The phto I took was at 6:13. They are saying the burst reached at least 30,000 feet.

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/HSR_SHZ_UW.2005030900.html

 

Click on the 3-letter designations above the trace to see other stations. They lost communications with 3 devices inside the crater during the eruption. :Alien:

[Buffy]

Turtle: CBS ran a pretty cool time-lapse of the erruption yesterday. Did you see it? Unfortunately its not on their web site, and the USGS VolcanoCam site doesn't have any video of the latest erruption ether....

 

Rumbly,

Buffy

[Queso]

what a sight that must be..truly amazing.

[Turtle]

___Before Europeans settled my area, many native tribes populated the region. Their legends record previous eruptions of Mt. St. Helens, which natives called Loowit among other names.

____This first link is a report on some of those legends & the tribes who told them:

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/msh/llc/hr/hrho/nam.html

 

___This second link is the home page of the preceding link; I just found it today so I don't know it well, but it looks like an excellent volcanoe reference.

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/

:)

[Queso]

ah that would have been spectacular.

[Turtle]

Dateline March 24, 2005 3:18 PM PST

 

If you check the St. Helens cam just now, she is mantled in snow & steaming a plume from her new dome. How completely the new snow is covering her & how completely it imbues a false sense of serenity. Beautiful! :)

[Turtle]

Dateline March 27 2005 3:31 PM PST

+++The camera is socked in with rain & clouds, but I just checked one of the seismic stations & the last few hours show a harmonic tremor signal:

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/CDF_SHZ_UW.2005032700.html

+++This may be a wind signature, as the other stations do not record the same signal. We have however had three significant quakes of 3.0 under the mountain in the last 18 hours.

+++The mountain is also receiving considerable rain & snow the last day & a half & this considerable volume of water in the crater is at the least creating consdierable steam. :)

[C1ay]

Dateline March 27 2005 3:31 PM PST

+++The camera is socked in with rain & clouds, but I just checked one of the seismic stations & the last few hours show a harmonic tremor signal:

http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/CDF_SHZ_UW.2005032700.html

+++This may be a wind signature, as the other stations do not record the same signal. We have however had three significant quakes of 3.0 under the mountain in the last 18 hours.

+++The mountain is also receiving considerable rain & snow the last day & a half & this considerable volume of water in the crater is at the least creating consdierable steam. :)

ASTER is featuring a recent infrared view of Mt. St. Helens. It's an interesting shot.

[Turtle]

___That's a great view C1ay; I talked Ace into setting it as the backdrop.

___This even's local news reported that in the last 48 hours, over 8" of rain has fallen on Mt. St. Helens & that flooding is now possible down the Toutle River system which drains the crater. Under the current weather conditions, no one is making any direct observations.

___I expect a big steam/ash burst any time in the next day or two; all that water going into the vents & just past the Worm Moon. More to come. :)

[Turtle]

___Dateline April 16 2005 12:15 PM PDT

___All is largely quiet on the mountain today. She is covered in snow & shrouded in cloud, patiently chuffing up the occasional steam plume & pushing her new dome skyward.

___Of course no officials want to say so, but there is every possibility that St. Helens will bury most of Vancouver & Portland the same as Vesuvius did Pompeii. If she does, maybe they'll find me in a thousand years, cast in stone with a beer bottle to my lips and then put me on display in a glass case. :)

[Queso]

wow is that really a possibility?

[Turtle]

___Absolutely. All Cascade volcanoes belong to the same system, ie. a subduction zone, & they all have explosive potential. St. Helens has the same potential to explode as Mt. Mazama did 7,000 years ago leaving behind Crater Lake.

___Further on the idea of ending up like Pompeii here, some of these eruptions don't merely explode, but rather persist for hours or days spewing tons of ash & gas into the high atmosphere. Were it but for a different wind when the last burst in March went to 36,000 feet, we here in Vancouver (USA) would have received an ash fall of over 1 cm.

___I live amost perfectctly equidisdant from Hood, Adams, & St. Helens; talk about your ring of fire!

[Queso]

it's so enourmous..i could not imagine seeing that thing spew lava thousands of feet into the sky. imagine olympus mons! :)