Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased 600
DarkHand writes "Mount St. Helens has become even more unstable in the last few hours. The U.S. Geological Surveys Cascades Volcano Observatory has increased the volcanic alert around the volcano to level 2 and released a press release: 'Over night, seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has accelerated significantly, which increases our level of concern that current unrest could culminate in an eruption. We are increasing the alert level to the second of three levels [...]. Earthquakes are occurring at about four per minute. The largest events are approaching Magnitude 2.5 and they are becoming more frequent. All are still at shallow levels in and below the lava dome that grew in the crater between 1980 and 1986. This suggests that the ongoing intense earthquake activity has weakened the dome, increasing the likelihood of explosions or perhaps the extrusion of lava from the dome.' The most recent readings at the SEP seismograph stationed on the lava dome itself are totally saturated. The ground is now literally constantly rumbling."
To quote Counter-Strike: (Score:5, Funny)
REM fans unite (Score:5, Funny)
Scary, yet cool. (Score:5, Funny)
Dante II (Score:4, Funny)
memo to self (Score:5, Funny)
If only... (Score:1, Funny)
*spoiler alert* (Score:5, Funny)
Not to be gross... (Score:4, Funny)
As I was watching Katie Couric interview one of the scientists this morning, I just kept thinking that these guys are all waiting for this big head to pop so they can collect measurements on the pus.
Sorry, kinda icky, but these are my thoughts. Mod down if you have a weak stomach.
Re:Scary, yet cool. (Score:2, Funny)
The situation is clear (Score:2, Funny)
Do you want the first warning to be a mushroom cloud over Washington State Park?
Ahh, this is the life (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sick of all these damn hurricanes, honey. Where else can we live?
I want to get as far away from this place as possible. How about Washington?
Works for me, let's go!
Re:Exciting! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:memo to self (Score:5, Funny)
Looks like you also have to be sure you don't live in the path of an active volcano. At that rate Mount St. Helens could reach Canada in a few thousand years!
The end is near (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe with this next eruption, instead of merely being born, I'll actually get a life.
Due to severe slashdot effect... (Score:5, Funny)
Folks: you're on your own.
Alert Levels (Score:5, Funny)
Prank Volcano (Score:5, Funny)
There will be a big white flag coming out of the crater reading "BOOM!" any minute now...
Re:Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam (Score:1, Funny)
/. pwns you (Score:3, Funny)
News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories
Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right.
Breaking News... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Exciting! (Score:2, Funny)
Or would that be a magma flow war?
Re:Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, you just
Re:Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam (Score:3, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Alert Levels (Score:3, Funny)
Not yet. In fact, certain congressional Democrats are "very concerned" that putting out these volcano warnings are just Republican scare-tactics. John Kerry (D-Mass) issued a statement this morning saying "Mt. St. Helens is angry, because the earth is angry at President Bush's failed environmental policies .."
Re:Scary, yet cool. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:/. pwns you (Score:3, Funny)
Serves me right for trying to score some karma points when I've been awake for 10 minutes.
Re:Scary, yet cool. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh. Nevermind [nzherald.co.nz]
Re:/. pwns you (Score:5, Funny)
News results for mount st. helens - View today's top stories
Mount St. Helens Alert Status Increased - Slashdot - 9 minutes ago
Experts Predict Mount St. Helens Eruption - ABC News - 10 minutes ago
Yes, that's right.
Good to know that other
Tonight during the debate... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To quote Counter-Strike: (Score:3, Funny)
I never thought I'd see the day.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:/. pwns you (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't resist...
Re:You think Mt. St. Helens was big... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mt St Helens seismic and other info (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Be afraid if the volcanoes ever stop (Score:3, Funny)
A problem that Slashdotters can conquer! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dante II (Score:5, Funny)
When discussing vulcanology, one should avoid using as one's primary reference a movie in which Pierce Brosnan successfully drives a pickup truck over several meters of red-hot lava.
You know you're doomed when... (Score:5, Funny)
On the "harbingers of doom" ratings scale, hearing I'm moving to town is like running into Jim Cantore in a hotel lobby.
Strange Coincidence... (Score:2, Funny)
The descriptions of the tsunamis were incredible (I know it's a fiction book, but still...): 100 ft. high waves travelling at high speeds, one after another. Sure, some buildings may survive one of those, but several?
Good book, but had to give it back to the library before I could finish it.
Re:Mt. Rainier even more potential than St. Helens (Score:2, Funny)
Last year or the year before when they had the (false) lahar warning for Rainier, a friend of mine -- a 911 dispatcher -- was on a date when he got the emergency page. This woman, quite the clingy "me-first" type, got uppity with him for looking at his pager. He told her he had to go, there was an emergency. She didn't believe him. He stood up in the middle of the restaraunt and said, loudly, "Mt. Fucking-Rainier is erupting...call a cab.". That was their first (and last) date. :-)
As an aside, anyone remember Jim Foreman (news reporter) doing a live broadcast from Harborview doing his normal melodramatic report that "dozens of casualties are being flown in now...we'll be here to report on it"? Good times.
Re:To quote Counter-Strike: (Score:3, Funny)
Not terrorism: Liberals. (Score:1, Funny)
Save America from Volcanoe's, Vote Bush 2004!
Re:Mt St Helens seismic and other info (Score:4, Funny)
(Thank you D.A.!)
Re:Exciting! (Score:1, Funny)
Oblig Simpsons Quote (Score:4, Funny)
-Homer
Re:*spoiler alert* (Score:5, Funny)
"No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow... What? Somebody's gotta have some damned perspective around here! One day, BOOM!"
(muttering to herself) "Boom. boomboomboom. BOOM!"
- Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
SEP seismograph? (Score:3, Funny)
Somebody Else's Problem seismograph? What does it do, make the volcano disappear if it becomes too inconvenient?
Defrag? (Score:2, Funny)
Looks like Mount St. Helens is about to defrag.
Re:Portland Oregon threatened in last eruption (Score:4, Funny)
My 1980 eruption anecdote (Score:5, Funny)
During one of the many ash-falls that used to regularly dust us, my brother and I ran out one morning to play in the new ash before our parents woke up. There was about 1-2 inches coating everything, like new snow, and it had just rained making all of the ash into an interesting clay-like consistency.
Kids being kids, my little brother and I ran out to the driveway and started writing our names with our fingers into the ash covering my dad's brand new 1 day old VW Scirroco in the driveway. It started out with "Hi" and "Cool" and progressed to "Van Halen kicks ass" and "KISS rules" and liberal scrawlings of "dork", "shit", "Tony sucks dick", drawings of boobies and penises, you get the idea.
Well, we got into a hell of a lot of trouble when my dad saw the car when he had to wipe all of the ash off to drive to work. Our trouble later escalated when he discovered that, after going through a car wash to rinse off the rest, everything that we had written on his car was now premanently scratched into the paint and windows of his car, ash being a fine gritty silicate. Our dad's co-workers ribbed him endlessly about his "custom paint job" as it took him several weeks before he could get his car repainted and the windows replaced.
All told, a few thousand dollar "oops" for us kids
You can't win (Score:2, Funny)
Live in the southwest: Earthquakes
Live on the east coast: Hurricanes
Live in the south/central part of the country: Tornadoes
Live in the north: Blizzards
Live in Indiana: You have to live in Indiana
Re:Scary, yet cool. (Score:1, Funny)
Plan B: Fsck it.
Re:Dante II (Score:3, Funny)
Now that's good airline service.