Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / October 2004

Soirry about the confusion on the identity of "Harry" at Mt. St. Helens.
I keep forgetting that this is old history for some folks.
Harry Truman was indeed the very stubborn old man who died at his Lodge with
all of his cats at Spirit Lake in the 1980 eruption.  He had many warnings ...

NEIC is reporting a 6.7 quake northwest of Taiwan on
Friday, October 15, 2004 at 04:08:50 UTC.
Predicted p-wave arrival time for Seattle, WA is
Oct 15, 4:21:26.7 UTC, which is Oct 14, 9:21pm.

While we are all enthralled on the developing Mt St Helens data and images,
let's not forget White Island. It's percolating, not anywhere near as
dramatically as Mt St Helens, but in the past 2 weeks, the steaming has been
constant (wasn't much going on before that)

http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Imgs/Jpg/MSH/MSH04/MSH04_visual_and_FLIR_new_growth_10
-13-04_med.jpg
Visual image compared to FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) image of new growth on
dome.
USGS images taken on 13 October 2004, by Rick Wessels and Mike Ramsey.

My Web site, http://www.findingfault.com/ has been updated with a
photo of surface rupture (sort of) from the 2004 Parkfield earthquake.
That I saw, the rupture is primarily sets of en echelon cracks, what
you get when rupture just barely extends up to the surface.  (Which is

It appears that the bottom/origin of the steam plume has moved west and is
largely moving up the interior face of the dome out of sight of the
volcanocam until it clears the rim.  I wonder if that represents a new lava
breakout point?

No new frame has appeared since 11:59PDT so it appears down.

Different activity in the last hour.

As more information becomes available about whether or not Mt. St.
Helens is going to erupt and possibly when, scientists continue to
look for Helium 3, a gas that only comes from deep magma from the
Earth's inner core.  To-date none has been found, but we can learn a

This has been going for at least the last half hour.  See the volcanocam:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
There is no notable seismic activity.

Lava has broken through the surface of the new up rise on the S side of the
dome. The blurb below is from MSH Update, October 12, 2004, 7:00 a.m, PDT @
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html

I have been lurking at earthquake use groups for several months.  I have
seen many posts about  Mount St. Helens here.  Most of the press questions
and thus most discussion is about the chances tragedy could happen there
again.

Fox Cable News is showing live pics of MSH blowing off steam @ ~ 08:00 PDT.
The helicorders are showing classic "Huff & Puff" traces. See:
http://www.ess.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/WEBICORDER/GREEN/JUN_EHZ_UW.2004101112.html
http://www.ess.washington ...

Someone asked about who had responsibility for the MSH Incident emergency
coordination. Below is a blurb from near the bottom of the page @
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/recreation/current-conditions/special.shtml
detailing the parties participating @ The Mount St. Helens Emergency