Cascade Range Current
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/current_updates.html
Informant: Anna Webb
Informant: Anna Webb
Starmail - 9. Mär, 19:50
Earthquakes and volcanoes
9
Mrz
2005
Recent Earthquakes
Most recent quakes - CA - within the last week.
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
Most recent quakes - all over North America - within the last week.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Informant: Anna Webb
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/quakes0.html
Most recent quakes - all over North America - within the last week.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Informant: Anna Webb
Starmail - 9. Mär, 19:47
Super-volcano in America could destroy human civilization
Starmail - 9. Mär, 16:37
Over 4000 earthquakes have occurred off the Pacific Northwest Coast
March 8th 2005
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Senior Seismologist Tonight “Live” on ECTV; 4,300 Quakes and Counting
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
Senior seismologist Bill Steele will be on the ECTV ‘Radio Hour’ tonight at our regularly scheduled program from 9 PM to 10 PM (Pacific), to discuss the now over 4000 earthquakes that have occurred off the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Bill Steele has been the Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences since 1993. Mr. Steele directs the educational outreach program for the network, and serves as Public Information Officer (PIO) for both the PNSN and for many USGS earthquake-related research activities in the Pacific Northwest . Directing the expansion of the PNSN outreach program, he has worked extensively with private and public sector organizations to better address their information needs and to build coalitions to meet mutual concerns.
PNSN Website: http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/
As always, you can count on me to ask very detailed questions as to the fast unfolding events off the Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island coast. A previous news release quoting Gary Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada stating “two tectonic plates pulling apart”, really got my attention. Of course most of us are more familiar with tectonic plates “submerging” or sliding under one another. Or as in the case of most southern California quakes, a slide back and forth motion. But to hear of tectonic plates “pulling apart”…Wow and Yikes at the same time.
A news report filed by CBC earlier today reports: “A team of researchers from Canada, Hawaii, Oregon and Massachusetts left Seattle on Saturday to investigate.
"It's been a few years since we've had a really intense swarm like this along one of the spreading centers, but they do happen," said John Cassidy, an earthquake scientist with the Pacific Geoscience Center on southern Vancouver Island.
"If the ship does get out there on time, this will be one of the first chances to actually see what's happening as it happens."
The Sun continues to act out for some unknown reason. The Kp Index continues to indicate geomagnetic storms in progress.
Kp Chart: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
The GOES Electron Flux has settled down a bit, but it is far from nominal.
Electron Flux Chart: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/elec_3d.html
Well folks, I will take a chance tonight and introduce my thoughts of a possible solar connection to current seismic events. Now don’t be surprised if I am quickly taken to task or even shunned. But sometimes you just got to say “what the heck”, its time to make a move. As we all know, new concepts are very difficult to introduce into the scientific arena. And one had better come mightily prepared to back it up. And so I shall!!!
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Senior Seismologist Tonight “Live” on ECTV; 4,300 Quakes and Counting
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
Senior seismologist Bill Steele will be on the ECTV ‘Radio Hour’ tonight at our regularly scheduled program from 9 PM to 10 PM (Pacific), to discuss the now over 4000 earthquakes that have occurred off the Pacific Northwest Coast.
Bill Steele has been the Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences since 1993. Mr. Steele directs the educational outreach program for the network, and serves as Public Information Officer (PIO) for both the PNSN and for many USGS earthquake-related research activities in the Pacific Northwest . Directing the expansion of the PNSN outreach program, he has worked extensively with private and public sector organizations to better address their information needs and to build coalitions to meet mutual concerns.
PNSN Website: http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/
As always, you can count on me to ask very detailed questions as to the fast unfolding events off the Oregon, Washington, and Vancouver Island coast. A previous news release quoting Gary Rogers, a seismologist with the Geological Survey of Canada stating “two tectonic plates pulling apart”, really got my attention. Of course most of us are more familiar with tectonic plates “submerging” or sliding under one another. Or as in the case of most southern California quakes, a slide back and forth motion. But to hear of tectonic plates “pulling apart”…Wow and Yikes at the same time.
A news report filed by CBC earlier today reports: “A team of researchers from Canada, Hawaii, Oregon and Massachusetts left Seattle on Saturday to investigate.
"It's been a few years since we've had a really intense swarm like this along one of the spreading centers, but they do happen," said John Cassidy, an earthquake scientist with the Pacific Geoscience Center on southern Vancouver Island.
"If the ship does get out there on time, this will be one of the first chances to actually see what's happening as it happens."
The Sun continues to act out for some unknown reason. The Kp Index continues to indicate geomagnetic storms in progress.
Kp Chart: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/kp_3d.html
The GOES Electron Flux has settled down a bit, but it is far from nominal.
Electron Flux Chart: http://www.sec.noaa.gov/rt_plots/elec_3d.html
Well folks, I will take a chance tonight and introduce my thoughts of a possible solar connection to current seismic events. Now don’t be surprised if I am quickly taken to task or even shunned. But sometimes you just got to say “what the heck”, its time to make a move. As we all know, new concepts are very difficult to introduce into the scientific arena. And one had better come mightily prepared to back it up. And so I shall!!!
Starmail - 9. Mär, 16:27
Mount St. Helens erupts
07:14 PM PST on Tuesday, March 8, 2005
KING5.com
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A large plume of steam rising up to 36,000 feet was being emitted Tuesday afternoon from the crater of Mount St. Helens.
It could be seen from miles around, including Portland, Oregon, and was moving northeast.
The eruption occurred at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
The plume was accompanied by an earthquake of about 2.0 magnitude, according to Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
Steele said he did not believe the explosion had increased the risk of a significant eruption and noted that recent flights over the volcano's crater did not reveal high levels of gases.
Steele said the ash burst may have been triggered by partial collapse of a lava dome in the crater, which has been growing steadily over the last several months.
"Until we get a better view in the crater we won't know," Steele said.
Mike Fergus, FAA, said he believes the cloud was mostly steam and did not present a danger to airplanes in the area.
The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory lost radio signals from three monitoring stations in the crater soon after the event started. The cause of the outage won't be known until scientists can visit the crater Wednesday to assess the situation, weather permitting.
An ashfall advisory is in effect until 9 p.m. for the south Washington Cascade foothills and the south Washington Cascades.
The winds are expected to take the ash plume to the east and north of Mount St. Helens, with the heaviest amounts to fall in Skamania County, and lighter amounts in Cowlitz County.
Breathing volcanic ash can be dangerous to many people, especially those with respiratory problems.
The 9,677-foot volcano in southwest Washington rumbled to life again last fall, pumping out lava as the mountain nears the 25th anniversary of the devastating eruption of May 18, 1980, that killed 57 people.
This latest volcanic burp from the mountain comes just after the state Board on Geographic Names unanimously chose Tulutson, the Cowlitz Indian word for ice, as the name for the glacier that has grown inside the mountain's crater.
Informant: Anna Webb
Mount St.Helens Unexpectedly Explodes
March 8th 2005
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
At 5:25 PM (Pacific) Mount St. Helens erupted spewing ash and rock six miles into the sky. Airlines have been ordered to stay clear of a 20 mile radius. The ash explosion happened around 5:25 p.m., about an hour after a 2.0 magnitude quake rumbled on the east side of the mountain, said Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
Steele said he did not believe the explosion had increased the risk of a significant eruption and noted that recent flights over the volcano's crater did not reveal high levels of gases.
Steele said the ash burst may have been triggered by partial collapse of a lava dome in the crater, which has been growing steadily over the last several months. "Until we get a better view in the crater we won't know," Steele said.
Steele said there had been no increase in quake activity before the explosion. "The seismicity had been continuing just as it had been," she said.
On May 18, 1980, the volcano 100 miles south of Seattle blew its top, killing 57 people and covered the region with gritty ash.
Tuesday March 8th – Bill Steele – Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Mr. Steele directs the educational outreach program for the network, and serves as Public Information Officer (PIO) for both the PNSN and for many USGS earthquake-related research activities in the Pacific Northwest. Directing the expansion of the PNSN outreach program, he has worked extensively with private and public sector organizations to better address their information needs and to build coalitions to meet mutual concerns. PNSN Website:
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/
KING5.com
VANCOUVER, Wash. - A large plume of steam rising up to 36,000 feet was being emitted Tuesday afternoon from the crater of Mount St. Helens.
It could be seen from miles around, including Portland, Oregon, and was moving northeast.
The eruption occurred at about 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.
The plume was accompanied by an earthquake of about 2.0 magnitude, according to Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
Steele said he did not believe the explosion had increased the risk of a significant eruption and noted that recent flights over the volcano's crater did not reveal high levels of gases.
Steele said the ash burst may have been triggered by partial collapse of a lava dome in the crater, which has been growing steadily over the last several months.
"Until we get a better view in the crater we won't know," Steele said.
Mike Fergus, FAA, said he believes the cloud was mostly steam and did not present a danger to airplanes in the area.
The USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory lost radio signals from three monitoring stations in the crater soon after the event started. The cause of the outage won't be known until scientists can visit the crater Wednesday to assess the situation, weather permitting.
An ashfall advisory is in effect until 9 p.m. for the south Washington Cascade foothills and the south Washington Cascades.
The winds are expected to take the ash plume to the east and north of Mount St. Helens, with the heaviest amounts to fall in Skamania County, and lighter amounts in Cowlitz County.
Breathing volcanic ash can be dangerous to many people, especially those with respiratory problems.
The 9,677-foot volcano in southwest Washington rumbled to life again last fall, pumping out lava as the mountain nears the 25th anniversary of the devastating eruption of May 18, 1980, that killed 57 people.
This latest volcanic burp from the mountain comes just after the state Board on Geographic Names unanimously chose Tulutson, the Cowlitz Indian word for ice, as the name for the glacier that has grown inside the mountain's crater.
Informant: Anna Webb
Mount St.Helens Unexpectedly Explodes
March 8th 2005
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
At 5:25 PM (Pacific) Mount St. Helens erupted spewing ash and rock six miles into the sky. Airlines have been ordered to stay clear of a 20 mile radius. The ash explosion happened around 5:25 p.m., about an hour after a 2.0 magnitude quake rumbled on the east side of the mountain, said Bill Steele, coordinator of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
Steele said he did not believe the explosion had increased the risk of a significant eruption and noted that recent flights over the volcano's crater did not reveal high levels of gases.
Steele said the ash burst may have been triggered by partial collapse of a lava dome in the crater, which has been growing steadily over the last several months. "Until we get a better view in the crater we won't know," Steele said.
Steele said there had been no increase in quake activity before the explosion. "The seismicity had been continuing just as it had been," she said.
On May 18, 1980, the volcano 100 miles south of Seattle blew its top, killing 57 people and covered the region with gritty ash.
Tuesday March 8th – Bill Steele – Seismology Lab Coordinator for the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network (PNSN) at the University of Washington Department of Earth and Space Sciences. Mr. Steele directs the educational outreach program for the network, and serves as Public Information Officer (PIO) for both the PNSN and for many USGS earthquake-related research activities in the Pacific Northwest. Directing the expansion of the PNSN outreach program, he has worked extensively with private and public sector organizations to better address their information needs and to build coalitions to meet mutual concerns. PNSN Website:
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/
Starmail - 9. Mär, 08:55
Acoustic Monitoring Ocean Seismicity
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/vents/acoustics/seismicity/seismicity.html
This link is to the Deep Ocean Seismicity from Hydroacoustic Monitoring - specifically the NW Pacific ocean. Info for the current underwater volcanic activity. Really good information here. Click on the Gorda Ridge, NE Pacific adn Endeavour Ridgem NE Pacific links.
The Acoustic Monitoring Project of the VENTS Program began continuous monitoring of north Pacific Ocean seismicity in August 1991 using the U.S. Navy's SOund Surveillance System (SOSUS) In May, 1996, monitoring was extended to the eastern equatorial Pacific using moored autonomous hydrophones, with the North Atlantic added in March, 1999. The hydroacoustic method allows detection of low-magnitude seismicity and volcanic activity and provides more accurate source locations than land seismic networks.
Informant: Anna Webb
This link is to the Deep Ocean Seismicity from Hydroacoustic Monitoring - specifically the NW Pacific ocean. Info for the current underwater volcanic activity. Really good information here. Click on the Gorda Ridge, NE Pacific adn Endeavour Ridgem NE Pacific links.
The Acoustic Monitoring Project of the VENTS Program began continuous monitoring of north Pacific Ocean seismicity in August 1991 using the U.S. Navy's SOund Surveillance System (SOSUS) In May, 1996, monitoring was extended to the eastern equatorial Pacific using moored autonomous hydrophones, with the North Atlantic added in March, 1999. The hydroacoustic method allows detection of low-magnitude seismicity and volcanic activity and provides more accurate source locations than land seismic networks.
Informant: Anna Webb
Starmail - 9. Mär, 08:48
8
Mrz
2005
Volcano experts warn about unrest at Mount Spurr
Starmail - 8. Mär, 09:19
6
Mrz
2005
Over 3000 Earthquakes within 72 Hours off NW Coast
March 6th 2005
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Over 3000 Earthquakes within 72 Hours off NW Coast
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
This story has caught fire. Seismologist and Geologist are rushing in from all over the world to witness this event. At this time the only press release is “Don’t worry; the earthquakes are not large enough to create a tsunami.”
That being said, the excitement is more about witnessing a growing “volcano” right off the coast of Vancouver Island. A scientific SWAT team from Seattle is sailing this afternoon for a spot off the coast of Vancouver Island, where they suspect an underwater eruption is under way.
"We really don't know what to expect," said Edward Baker, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "If we're very lucky, we may get pictures of brand-new lava on the seafloor."
This news release began as a slow simmer, and has now picked up speed and a whole lot of attention, and rightfully so. Recent studies of past earthquakes indicate a natural cyclical pattern. Although it may be a natural periodic occurrence, no one knows exactly when, how and where the next round of seismic events will unfold. It appears the most vulnerable areas are U.S. Midwest (New Madrid), eastern Canada , Australia and Germany .
In a recent Smithsonian Institute article reports: “Three hundred years of tectonic pressure has now built up since the 1700 tsunami occurred. A recent study estimates that 10 million people on the U.S. West Coast would be affected by a Cascadia subduction-zone quake. Today, the shaking from a quake of the same magnitude would damage 200 highway bridges, put Pacific ports out of business for months, and generate shock waves capable of toppling tall buildings and long bridges in Seattle and Portland.”
Early this morning I received an email from H.C. who is one of our ECTV subscribers with a link to the PNSN (Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network). Looks like there is another round of earthquake swarms in progress! Below are the links to the seismographs.
Mt. Rainier:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/RCM_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html
Butler Butte:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/BBO_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html
**I will just conclude with saying “I have a feeling this story is just beginning”.
EARTH CHANGES TV NEWSLETTER
Over 3000 Earthquakes within 72 Hours off NW Coast
by Mitch Battros - ECTV
This story has caught fire. Seismologist and Geologist are rushing in from all over the world to witness this event. At this time the only press release is “Don’t worry; the earthquakes are not large enough to create a tsunami.”
That being said, the excitement is more about witnessing a growing “volcano” right off the coast of Vancouver Island. A scientific SWAT team from Seattle is sailing this afternoon for a spot off the coast of Vancouver Island, where they suspect an underwater eruption is under way.
"We really don't know what to expect," said Edward Baker, an oceanographer at the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, which is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). "If we're very lucky, we may get pictures of brand-new lava on the seafloor."
This news release began as a slow simmer, and has now picked up speed and a whole lot of attention, and rightfully so. Recent studies of past earthquakes indicate a natural cyclical pattern. Although it may be a natural periodic occurrence, no one knows exactly when, how and where the next round of seismic events will unfold. It appears the most vulnerable areas are U.S. Midwest (New Madrid), eastern Canada , Australia and Germany .
In a recent Smithsonian Institute article reports: “Three hundred years of tectonic pressure has now built up since the 1700 tsunami occurred. A recent study estimates that 10 million people on the U.S. West Coast would be affected by a Cascadia subduction-zone quake. Today, the shaking from a quake of the same magnitude would damage 200 highway bridges, put Pacific ports out of business for months, and generate shock waves capable of toppling tall buildings and long bridges in Seattle and Portland.”
Early this morning I received an email from H.C. who is one of our ECTV subscribers with a link to the PNSN (Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network). Looks like there is another round of earthquake swarms in progress! Below are the links to the seismographs.
Mt. Rainier:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/RCM_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html
Butler Butte:
http://www.pnsn.org/WEBICORDER/VOLC/BBO_SHZ_UW.2005030600.html
**I will just conclude with saying “I have a feeling this story is just beginning”.
Starmail - 6. Mär, 22:47
Seafloor earthquakes signal eruption off Vancouver Island
Starmail - 6. Mär, 10:09
8
Feb
2005
Relations between Earthquakes and Atmosphere
A relation between earthquakes and atmosphere has been found...
http://www.meteoquake.org is a new website which needs comments and also witnesses concerning animal behaviour before earthquakes, also magnetic space in the lower atmosphere before earthquakes etc....
donnalee
http://www.meteoquake.org is a new website which needs comments and also witnesses concerning animal behaviour before earthquakes, also magnetic space in the lower atmosphere before earthquakes etc....
donnalee
Starmail - 8. Feb, 18:54
