Breaking: Nine Quakes Rattle Mount Saint Helens!!

From the article,

"The most powerful quake measured just 2.2 on the Richter Scale. "

2.2? Really? Is that the best she can do? We have those all the time.

You want to worry about a volcanic mountain in WA? Worry about Mt. Rainier. I was here when St. Helens exploded in 1980. It is an ash mountain. No lava. If Rainier blows, Seatac is gone. Boeing is gone. Most of the cities south of Seattle are gone.

Or maybe worry about Mt. Baker. If he blows, Bellingham is gone.

This is part of the ring of fire. But a 2.2 earthquake is nothing. Wake me when there is an earthquake of 5.0 or more.

Swarms at MSH happen every once in awhile. We'll have to just wait and see what happens.

Beautiful spot really, worth the drive out there.

Had a dream once that Rainier and Mt. Baker both erupted the same day...always wondered if that was a premonition.

On the alert map it shows a landslide in Kentucky (dated today)... but can't find anything on Google about it.

Mount St. Helens has had 14 small quakes since Thursday.

I read somewhere that they recently change the EARTHQUAKE scale. In other words what use to be called a 5.3 is now called a 4.3. But each one point om the Rhicter scale is really a magnitude of 100 not 1. Does this make sense and has anyone else heard of this?

Last Edited by WOMAN WHO RUNS W/ WOLVES on 01/31/2011 02:42 PM

I am not finding any comfort with Mt. St. Helens and the earthquakes. Not good, last time was an absolute mess.

Bolivia technical disaster is this

[link to newsinfo.inquirer.net]

Russian one is this I think... still building collapses

[link to en.rian.ru]

Nope, wasn't aware of this. Got a link?

Congrats on your first pin.

Thank you.

Pacific NW earthquake tracker

[link to www.mynorthwest.com]

Good site. Thanks for sharing!

Smaller quakes may indicate magma movement rather than plate tectonic movement.

"Red-Hot Magma, Mr. Powers" ...

Ok, there are 2 different scales one is Ricter and one is Mercalli. Thread: The Richter Earthquake Scale

Have to agree with this. St Helens has had numerous small eruptions and thousands of quakes both pre and post the 1980 eruption. Even if it does erupt again it will be nothing like the magnitude of the 1980 eruption. The lava dome is not big, or solid, enough to create another devestating eruption. To those of us who live in her shadow we aren't concerned about these small, deep, quakes.

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Russian Volcano breaking apart,,,,,,This is going to be a huge one...

BFD happens now and again with the old girl. I'm sure you flatlanders and city dwellers find it very exciting but its just normal.

Interesting.

It sounds like the Mercalli scale is older and not used in modern news stories. So, when earthquakes are measured today, they're measured by the Richter scale. In which case, a 2.2 still is very minor. A 4.0 may be felt, if you're close to the epicenter. But, even a 4.0 isn't really a big deal. A 2 or a 3 is rarely even felt. Just ask a Californian.

Alaska has way more earthquakes than anywhere else in the US. But, it's so sparsely populated, nobody talks about it. 8.0 earthquakes aren't unheard of up there. But, very few people are impacted by them.

When the Pacific NW gets "the big one" it will be way worse than anything San Francisco or Los Angeles has ever seen. Our big fault line acts different than the San Andreas. The San Andreas slides back and forth and lets off steam. Our major fault line crashes into each other. We're supposed to be long overdue for "the big one", but I've lived my whole life here and still haven't seen "the big one". I don't do fear.

Hey this is a sweet map of the PNW (Washington State, Oregon and British Columbia. Maybe Idaho too depending on who you ask.). The map shows magnitude and date.
[link to www.mynorthwest.com]

Got it from the original link. :D

It could gut ugly, lots of eartones out here,

Here's my 2 cents on the increase in incidents of building collapse issue:

The earth is constantly shaking or vibrating now all the time.

The wobble is becoming more pronounced.

Over time, this activity causes buildings to collapse that otherwise would not have done so.

fuck egypt doom, this is what Im talking about.

Cool website, thanks!

:godpython:

Well it did say it was a fault line eg and not a volcanic eq.

[link to www.ess.washington.edu]

hiding the data???

[link to www.ess.washington.edu]

nothing has been normal with the earth and space lately skippy, things have changed..