Natural Science Forum / Earth Science / Earthquakes / October 2004

Colima erupted today:
 http://www.ucol.mx/volcan/imagen.htm

A reminder that excellent pictures of the crater, eruption plume
and other related subjects can be found here:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/wr/wa/vancouver/MSH_Images/
Most of these files are 1 megabyte and up(!), so you may

The webicorders have gone quiet...the volcano cam won't come up.
CNN tv has a pic of the volcano in the corner....CNN online reports
smoke and ash.
Brian

http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
Somebody parked a news truck in front of the volcano cam!!!
It's not totally blocking it, but I still think it's funny.
Brian

I had sent an earlier update message but it hasn't shown up.
I've updated the animations since then anyway.
I've made an improvement to the color scheme. Whereas before
the colors only went form cyan to red, now the colors go

Does anyone know how well the data acquisition went for the Parkfield EQ and
afterwards?  Was everything turned on and collecting?  Was there any ELF
data collected?  Was the instrumentation is the deep holes finished and
operational?  Was the rest of the Calif. instrumentation in ...

Just found this site with a live webcam of Mount Saint Helens.
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
As I write this, it's dark, but the silhouette of the mountain
is still there. :)

I'd like some people to notice or be concerned about a few items
concerning today's Parkfield EQ. I posted this on ca.earthquakes. I
mentioned in that posting about the "walking" nature of these recent
quakes at Parkfield and if this is normal.

A group of mag 3 or grater EQ occurred at Mt St Helens between ~ 18:00 &
22:00 local time 9/30. See:
http://spike.geophys.washington.edu/recenteqs/Maps/Mount_St._Helens.html
This group of mag 3 or greater EQ's have occurred in ~ a circle ranging in

Be sure and vote President Bush and VP Cheney back into office.
Only they can protect us against terrorism and against cataclysmic
catastrophic disasters such as the great Earthquakes.
Our President can call upon GOD to save us from these disasters if he so

U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, Washington
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, Seattle,
Washington
Mount St. Helens Notice of Volcanic Unrest

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/Parkfield_eqs.htm

Here is a copy of this morning's article on NorthWest Cable News
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Movement detected on Mount St. Helens' lava dome
Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Was everything turned on and capturing successfully?  Was the treasure-trove
of raw data fully realized?