What's happening with Mt. St. Helens?

Seth Moran from Cascades Volcano Observatory will join to talk about the uptick in seismic activity and what it means.
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[@SongMom8]

It seems like he’s asking the same basic question over and over again. “Is Mt. St. Helens going to erupt again soon?” And the answer is, “We don’t know.” Thanks for clearing that up.

[@pepsiyummie1]

I think it’s more like this…”Is it gonna erupt?”…answer” my dog has to go outside”…”I’m so tired”…anything but the answer!😂

[@dlb9643]

Nothing like first taking Geology 101 before engaging the USGS…

[@mb9662]

“Soon” means less than 10,000 years, to a geologist

[@Ring0--]

It's 50/50 %. Kinda like rain. Perfect GVMT Response.

[@edwardgensheimer6640]

The volcano geek is ebbin and floin us maybe kinda little bit. He would love for her to blow her stack.

[@katharinecarmichael7759]

Here is the Truth & Facts, It can go off again, At anytime! Even without Warning. See? That was Easy & Truthful to say! Not going Around & Around

[@cbass2755]

👍 yep.

[@georgegunn6034]

That's the truth. Quick simple and straight forward answer instead of hemhawing around and it didn't cost taxpayers millions of dollars to say.

[@BeeBee-3274sweet]

😂thank u 😂

[@moonagedaydream-ohyeah]

Nature isn't predictable, but what is, are T.V. channels trying to gain ratings and fill dead airspace with colorful non-information.

[@vicferrari9380]

You and the geologist know the only thing reporter boy was going to accept was a yes or no answer. He didn't want scientific evidence. He just wanted a sensational news piece and the USGS isn't in to that. The reporter boy is a uneducated boob that wanted something that can't be reasonably given without facts to back it up.❤

[@sephardim4yeshua155]

This is a 13 min video that should have been 2.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

Read the comments, you won't mind.

[@u.synlig]

I enjoyed the dance. It was instructive.

[@gmill7911]

I watched 10 seconds and then came to the comments for the answer.

[@robloggia]

​@@bellakrinkle9381Boy howdy

[@dsm238945]

A slow news day.

[@richardbeee]

The last words my professor told us in our class was you can't predict the unpredictable.😊

[@williemo44]

Your professor was right!👍🏽

[@jtjames79]

But AI is scary good. The problem is determining if it's a hallucination or not.

[@richardbeee]

@@williemo44 yep.

[@JoeKyser]

it's pretty sensible. How these people dont get that is beyond me

[@RazorStrap]

Your professor is wrong. I could predict that Mt. St. Helens will erupt on August 8th 2024 at 6:35 PM PDT. I would likely be wrong though. Predictions don't have to be correct to be a prediction.

[@Steve-bw4oh]

Want to know a secret? They don't know

[@realitycheck6]

😂😂😂

[@deewilson888]

They really don't. Its embarrassing.

[@spookygirl7761]

😂 😆

[@williemo44]

They will figure it out eventually.

[@issachariteprincess3167]

Everything that happens, unquestionably, always is by God's power! ✊🏾

[@R.E.A.P]

If one thing can be said about that mountain, it's unpredictable!

[@rejanedesevigne]

I worked for Gifford Pinchot National Forest back when Mt St Helen's erupted in 1980. It was an exciting time.

[@darlenelarochelle4011]

I bet!

[@daphnekivinen9482]

So did I.

[@plzsavethebeez743]

I lived and worked in L9ngview, WA! We watched so much debree flowxdown the Toutle river! I later dated two men who lost family homes up there! I worked with a someone who lost their home! I climbedcup twice 20 some yesrs apart to view the dome from the crater's edge!

[@dipstick5869]

My brother-in-law lived in Spokane at the time and brought us a glass tube of the ashes. He said it was a Big mess up there.

[@sandrahealey6385]

Exciting! Unless it visited destruction upon you 🤔

[@sinjun1973]

I was 7 and live in Wisconsin and the news coverage of Mt St Helen’s is something I will never forget. Seeing the side of that volcano blast out the way it did in the pyroclastic blow and how it raced down the side of the mountain is just something I will never forget.

[@bretttodd6470]

I live near Tacoma and I watched it erupt real time live without a TV. It was massive. Although I was 100 miles away, it dominated the skyline.

[@sinjun1973]

@@bretttodd6470 That must have been terrifying.

[@catinaclare-powell2354]

Being about 7 yrs old. It was something a child will never forget. 1 minute you look outside and it's sunny the next your whole living room kitchen and upstairs is all pitch black and it looks like dark gray snow landing all over cars trucks the trees and the playground. Then to have to wear masks to school because they were unsure and didn't want us to inhale Saint Helen ashes!!! #spokan

[@amandabolden2077]

@@catinaclare-powell2354. Wow…you comment just gave me chills! Sounds absolutely terrifying! 😢

[@SusanParr-yo8ou]

Like I said: my son was born (C-section) on May 13, 1980. So he was our “volcano baby”. We were living in Spokane. The “air” turned to … like a snow storm. With the amount of “snow”, it was really “creepy”.

[@22Circes]

Did anyone else have to fight to not leave during that weird and ridiculous countdown?

[@Capohanf1]

Want to use that part of the video for the videos I make!

[@falconquest2068]

I fast forwarded past it. I hate those!

[@steele7609]

Yes

[@GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz]

@@steele7609 Same here, just drag the cursor to the right, and after about 3 seconds I dragged it all the way to the right!

[@bugoutadventures]

WHEN THEY TELL YOU NOT TO WORRY....😮THEN IS THE TIME YOU NEED TO PREPARE!!!

[@ladellg267]

STOP YELLING.! The government doesn't control the mountain you're prolly nowhere near it.

[@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner]

Run and hide, kamala is going to eat your children. Biden is powerful enough to cause seismic events; yet clueless enough to Think he is president.

[@bellakrinkle9381]

@@ladellg267 Maybe he's hysterical.

[@Awacactus]

Who you yelling at and why you yelling

[@mylamberfeeties875]

🤣 hilarious people think caps are yelling when in fact it means a warning ⚠️ 😂 you guys are ridiculous 🤣

[@zephyrzurcon4526]

Two times last week, I felt simic activity inside my house in the downtown Morton, Washington area and could hear a low rumbling sound with it.

[@larrybruce4856]

Someone farted ???

[@mamadoom9724]

I live near Mount saint helens and I’ve heard some rumbling sounds lately too. No one else in my family has noticed though so idk maybe I’m just imagining it.

[@zephyrzurcon4526]

@@mamadoom9724 Sometimes, I am that way too... because others do not experience the seismic activity. Physically I'm very aware. The fact that the holes in my vertebrates for the nerves are small thus causing extra pressure on the nerves and increasing all the experiences of the five senses.

[@le_th_]

As a Californian since 1997, that is what it sounds like when you live on/very near a fault line and you can hear/feel the low rumble of an earthquake come up from the earth to the surface, even a small earthquake.

[@down-to-earth-mystery-school]

I lived in Oregon in 1980 when St. Helens erupted. Pretty intense

[@daphnekivinen9482]

I lived 12 air miles from Mount St. Helens in 1980.

[@nreising2722]

I bet!!

[@daphnekivinen9482]

@@nreising2722 what are you betting? I also worked for the U.S. Forest Service, St. Helens Ranger District that changed their name to Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument from 1979 until 2007.

[@FirstLast-iv2tc]

USGS. Doesn't seem concerned about much. Yellowstone has recently been doing things they said years ago that they'd be concerned about.

[@JoeKyser]

exactly for the last 3 decades they been saying old yeller is gonna blow. They certainly cant predict a thing when it comes to this stuff. They never could and doesn't look like they will anytime in the near future

[@TerraStory225MYA]

Not actually true. I'm a geoscience major, and keep my ear to the ground on geologic goings on. Yellowstone isn't due for another eruption, and that doesn't really have any real meaning. The fact is the volcanic activity is a constant feature of our planet, and has been for 4.5 billion years. There's no real predicting this stuff in any measure far out into the future. never has been.

[@donnavaughn9409]

actually they are concerned, it isn't something reported much on, there are increased of volcano activity all over the world, lots of minor quakes and since about 2003 or 2004 since that giant tsunami over in Malaysia and around that area, these things are increased so much. Cracks on the earth and probably we are seeing this because the earth's temperature went up a bit. It We see the artic ices melting as well. It doesn't matter how the earth temp increased, it did and it is why we are seeing the increase of all of it, hurricanes, and on and on and all of it will increase, more and more.

[@bryanst.martin7134]

If it "erupts", it will be effusive, or just bleeding out of a thousand vents. No large blast as people fear. They should fear the San And Fault slip. That could happen much sooner. If so the West coast will probably slide off underwater and send a wave across the Pacific.

[@Kiwigeo8339]

@@JoeKyser The only people saying YS is going to blow are scientific illiterates like Mary Greely and Ron Tyler via their social media channels.

[@franklinmc4457]

Ask Seth why the USGS keeps downgrading earthquakes?

[@geralddraper4491]

Seth knows @Dutchsince and doesn't like it. Sleep well

[@HeKeepsMeSinging]

They've really downgraded earthquakes... into negative earthquakes. 🥴🥴

[@michaelspring3915]

What? Explaine?

[@akitajapan1651]

They don't want us nervous 😅

[@lisawonderful2222]

@@michaelspring3915 at all regarding fracking??

[@deezynar]

That's the kind of job I should have gone into. Get paid to study data, install detectors that collect data, record data, talk about data from the past, talk about recent data, talk like knowing all that data is really beneficial, and be unable to ever provide any worthwhile predictions.

[@Ejk2969]

That sounds exactly like, “politicians.”

[@TerraStory225MYA]

tell me you don't know a thing about volcanology without telling me you don't know a thing about volcanology

[@sw8741]

@@TerraStory225MYA I got a Ouija board so that makes me just as qualified.

[@powers1776reset]

@@TerraStory225MYA There isn’t much to it really. Of course you’ll probably engage in the semantics, which is how they effectively turn something that’s rather simple to understand, into a world of terminology and acronyms, egos and opinions and of course, an encyclopedia of theories, and speculation. Those whose parents paid a fortune for their education, will say anything to keep the subject matter of their study, in their favor, in order to maintain a sense of superiority. In reality, the ground vibrates and they watch, until something else happens. Btw, this is not intended as a knock against the field of study. Volcanoes are fascinating

[@SHARON.I]

@@sw8741 just like praying is like wishing

[@kikigirlkauai]

If you live in flow , fire, ash fallout areas you should always be prepared with respiratory supplies, bug out bags, escape plan, safe food storage, keep car in shape, pets, etc. just smart to always have a bug out bag or two and masks and water.

[@robinwhitlatch4497]

And extra air filters for the vehicle.

[@WayneTheSeine]

Keep that tank topped off. I live near the Gulf Coast and keep that tank full all the time. Oh, and keep plenty of toilet paper on hand. During Laura I had 15 people at my house for nine days and did not run out of food, water, or gas for the two generators. I also had 5 gallons of kerosene for lanterns and 30 gallons of water for washing up, toilet, and cooking as well as a bathtub full. My daughter-in-laws hugged my neck and said, "Thank god someone was prepared."

[@le_th_]

Keep FUEL in your car, or keep you EV charged (i.e. don't let it go low and then slow charge on your house charger overnight). You need to get the heck outta there WITH your pets, so you need fuel and/or you EV fully charged. Those of us who are old enough to remember will never forget. 3M P100 masks are necessary and bottled water (because the water will be contaminated by fine ash).

[@Desert10075]

We don't want this to happen, I saw it erupt in 1980, it's a huge mess of ash full of glass that you shouldn't breathe in.

[@cindyschlecht1975]

Wear a mask if it happens again. Masks DO work!

[@daniellescrochet]

The last several eruptions have just been lava dome building episodes, not the violent explosion of 1980. It's likely that this eruption would also be similar to the early 2000's eruptions. It depends on the amount of trapped gases in the magma though. Although volcanoes are nothing if not unpredictable.

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I was up in Canada when it happened and my car had ash on it!!!

[@janiceyoungblood6894]

Right

[@darlenetannlund2876]

It’s a volcano volcanoes are almost always considered active so that means they’re all going to go off at some point if that’s stressful for you then don’t live near a volcano

[@KimberlyLBrown]

Matthew 24:6-8. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are but the beginning of the birth pains.

[@TerraStory225MYA]

If they were, then why have they been going on since the beginning of our planet. Please stop with this useless fearmongering which has no place in geologic science. Volcanos have been erupting on our planet for the last 4.5 billion years. In fact we're in a period of time in which there are fewer volcanos erupting than is the geologic norm. Please, get educated and read the B*ble less

[@billmago7991]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@user-rr4so1st5d]

I just thought about that very scripture. Thank you!

[@sweendawg7274]

Oh please

[@landomilknhoney]

❤

[@cleekersneaker]

I really appreciate my local TV news going in depth on a story by talking to a scientist beyond the sound bite. This is great.

[@doylecole]

My young wife and I were in Eugene during the 1980 eruption. Absolutely awe inspiring!!

[@1coketogo554]

I was in Cottage Grove working. A few days later we were all sitting at home when there was a sonic boom. I automatically said what was that. My little son was sitting next to me and he patted me on the back and said don't worry mommy, it's just the volcano. Little did he know if we heard that loud enough to rattle the windows we'd all be doomed. He was so sweet and innocent then.

[@mirrage42]

Inspiring?? What did it inspire you to do?

[@Paranoia..................38]

Tel us the truth! Volanos all over the world are going off!

[@GodsSparrowSpeaks]

Books of both Matthew and The Revelation are happening now 😬🙏🏼 I suggest reading Had to correct a grammar error

[@lagodifuoco313]

​@GodsSparrowSpeaks Your buybull is garbage, and the god depicted within is a mythical monster.

[@RyanBlackhawke]

Yes. They do that all the time, tho.

[@RyanBlackhawke]

@@GodsSparrowSpeaks 🤣🤣🤣

[@gregorydaniels3884]

There are currently 48 active volcanoes right now.

[@frederickbooth7970]

I lived through the 1980 eruption! We don`t need another in my lifetime! That blasted volcano ruined a brand new roof. Was barely able to repair & lost 25% of the expected life of the roof. Our property with the roof is in Hillsboro. With all the costs of living in this area increasing to a ridiculous amount this 68 year old native may have to travel the Oregon trail in reverse like the owner of Gales Creek auto wrecking did 30 years ago.

[@lagodifuoco313]

"Native" ???

[@justaskin8523]

Seriously? You're worried about your roof? And you're not worried about being cooked alive by pyroclastic surge? Not getting emphysema from breathing soot and ash, which dessicate your lungs and make it so you can't breathe well enough to climb a flight of stairs? Not being smashed flat by boulders the size of Teslas, and a hundred times heavier, being thrown 50 miles? Priorities aren't really your thing, are they? But hey, maybe it's not too late for you to sell your property. There's always SOMEBODY willing to buy it. Maybe find somebody who wants to leave California?

[@zoeemiko8149]

I was there during the eruption also vacationing. Scariest thing ever! I was floored when I heard Truman had decided to stay in his home & was killed.

[@kathleenharris6124]

Loved in Molalla Oregon, and the ash came down on our cars and our property of course and others clear down in Molalla.. it was so interesting. We actually drove over into Washington watching the Action when we could we got far enough that where they were turning people around along side of the river and fish were jumping up in the air at the river. I’ve never heard any of anyone else discuss that, but they had seen that I can only assume heat some type of chemical sulfur something being released in the water. I would love to know.

[@flowerpower3618]

@@justaskin8523rude

[@Pbav8tor]

The two that scare me are Ranier and (gulp) Yellowstone.

[@user-ms3ko5gn8e]

Also Mount Baker

[@RAM-db3ti]

I think we need to be more worried about the earthquake slip on the fault line along the coast. 9200 tremors in what 30 days. The big one is coming and Mount St. Helens is just getting alittle blips of it.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

Bingo. Err, those two disasters might not be mutually exclusive.

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I agree

[@Bushman9]

That was the question I was waiting for. Are these upticks in seismic activity related?

[@maryhduke2307]

Wyoming ranchers found a 5 foot shift along a faultline...and an 8 foot deep crack. Plates are shifting majorly.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

Got links? That one sounds interesting.

[@BA-ng9bx]

More info please?

[@kathleenmartin7498]

I hadn't heard of this either!

[@karenarteaga1516]

I would like to know more about this information from Wyoming… Maybe looking into the fault lines might even be a better gauge to what’s going on in the volcano

[@Kiwigeo8339]

@@karenarteaga1516 Yellowstones volcanism isnt driven by plate tectonics like Cascadia's. YS is driven by a mantle plume currently sitting under the area.

[@NewEscapade]

I lived in Eugene, OR, for a year, and heard it that Sunday morning when it blew. Later that summer, we moved to Moscow, Idaho, and I got a job in the Daylight Donuts shop. In Eugene, we were spared due to wind direction from the ash fallout, but in Moscow, my job included repeatedly sweeping the Mt. St. Helen's ash out the shop door, as it got tracked in by customers. We also saw the layer of ash on lentil fields around Moscow.

[@maziet9734]

Thank you for reporting on this. I live on the West Coast in Canada. We had lava dust everywhere. It's very important to keep it fresh in people's minds, similar to earthquake awareness & drills. We need everyone to be informed. Some people want to keep their heads in the sand.

[@Bayan1905]

In 1980 when Mt. St. Helens erupted, there was a series of earthquakes and steam venting episodes from two months prior up to the eruption. On March 20, 1980 there was a 4.2 magnitude earthquake below the north flank and then there was a swarm of earthquakes that built up on March 25, 1980 for the next two days. There were 174 quakes of 2.6 or greater and one that was 5.1 on the Richter scale. On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens erupted.

[@robinwhitlatch4497]

And the dome built & grew large until it blew out on 5/18/80.

[@dianedonnachie2794]

Thanks for the info.

[@daniellescrochet]

Thank you Greg for an honest and informative take on the increased seismic activity at Mount St Helen's right now. It can be hard when people want definitive answers but there are none. I also learned a new piece of information that the Richter Scale can be negative. Mathematically it makes sense, but I never thought of that before. *I don't agree that this 12 minute video could have been 30 seconds, or that the expert from the USGS didn't say anything valuable. He talked about the history of eruptions at MSH, the different eruptive types between 1980 and the 2000's, the historic recurrence interval of eruptions, different ways that they monitor the volcano, how monitoring technology has advanced, what type of seismicity they are seeing now, what that has meant historically, what type of seismicity has indicated an immanent eruption over the last half century, and the historic record of how much time there is between increse in seismic strength and eruption. He concluded by saying given past behavior of MSH it does not appear that an eruption is immanent, but things could change quickly.

[@kimfrommn7162]

@daniellescrochet Danielle, I want to thank you for speaking out about the information we were told by Greg and Seth. I Love the States of Washington and Oregon. I have been out in this area many times, and before the big eruption, when my daughters were elementary/jr. high school age we spent 5 summers out there and we always included one week of it out at the same campsite looking right up at Mt.St.Helen, and the only way you could get to this camp sight was by boat. Fortunately, I have a cousin who still lives out there! But, after reading many of these negative, immature, childish texts said to Greg and Seth, I do not know where my opinion is about wanting to spend more time out there after retirement! I felt very fortunate that their Video popped up for me to have the chance of watching it! I wouldn't of seen these texts (I stopped reading them, it was making me sick), if I hadn't planned on sending Greg and Seth a Thank You text. I hope you are having a Nice Weekend!! God Bless. 🤗❤️👍🙋🏻‍♀️

[@Seattle_Kiwi]

Thank you so much. Thanks for not participating in any scaremongering. USGS did a great job explaining the situation very well.

[@Siouxperman]

I lived in MT in the 80’s I was in grade school and remember my dad wiping away the ash that had covered our vehicles. Nearly 3.5 states over and ash made its way over. It was pretty exciting.

[@Capohanf1]

Still have two mason jars of the ash from the first eruption!

[@NineSixteenGenetix916]

Mt. St. Helens I believe went off about 2003 or 2004, I was a kid at school then and they didnt let us go out for recess cause the ash and smoke, and we were in California 2 whole states away.

[@rdallas81]

I live in ASH, North Carolina- Hopefully I won't see any if she blows!

[@jasong.5165]

Since when was Montana 3.5 states away?

[@andreahoppe7777]

@@NineSixteenGenetix916the last time it blew was in 1980 😂

[@laurabogue3503]

My girl is as unpredictable as ever. They didnt know the last time what was going on the last time. They don't know now. She will do the amazing when she wants to.

[@dustinh4175]

If you look closely you can see me waving down in the city

[@richardvasquez9668]

👋😁✌️

[@irenebecker4815]

I lived in Denver in 1980. Ash fell on my car the day following the eruption. I don't want to live within 500 miles of Mr. St. Helen's.

[@feanacar]

They haven’t got a clue

[@SandraGrimes-rt9we]

On my bookcase is a very small jar sealed with ash from the 1980 eruption.

[@danskdna8550]

Hopefully no more jars in our lifetimes.😬

[@kathleenharris6124]

We lived inMolalla and my relatives in Yakima that really got a lot of ash sent us some jars full of ash. Sadly, I never kept it would be interesting right now I remember the earthquake and up and earthquakes and more often stronger people were saying it will never blow is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

[@diane8937]

Me too. We saved it in baby food jars. My dad in Sacramento sold them for $2 apiece!

[@keekeedobalina]

My aunt and uncle brought me back a jar of ash to Colorado. I had it for years, but I don't know what happened to it.

[@lynnquinn7244]

I was visiting in St. Helens OR at the time. My dad collected a small bottle of ash from off the car, and I saved it for years, but no idea where it is now.

[@GrCent]

Why do I feel like this guy knows as much about volcanoes as I do? Which isn't much.

[@LareesieAlice]

More like hiding the truth... "seismic activity" is manufactured.

[@cowboygeologist7772]

Thanks for the update.

[@msmoe8687]

What is the point? We can't trust them to tell us the full truth to begin with, ever!

[@Kathryn721]

Cynical much?

[@JoeyNiklas]

then why watch?

[@godswittness69]

Good discernment, keep it up !

[@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner]

I believe the things your mom Told me last night.

[@whatabouttheearth]

So the US Geological Survey has a conspiracy that they are hiding from the people? 😂

[@ltilkens3198]

My prediction is that it will erupt yesterday

[@PhoenixLyon]

No. The second Tuesday of next week. (alien invasion is on the second Thursday of next week!)✌️😸

[@stm5578]

I remember when it blew up in the 80s. I was near the Arkansas/Oklahoma border and remember seeing the ash falling out of the sky and how dark it got. Yes, from that far away.

[@WayneTheSeine]

Thanks for staying on top of this and keeping us informed.

[@Barbara-ch3qf]

Good reporting. Well formulated and thoughtful questions!

[@LilyGazou]

I’ll go hike up there and report back.

[@Torchriver67]

Pack a lunch!

[@bay9876]

If you got chickens watch for changes in behavior. If squaking a lot and they stop laying you know were in deep do-do.

[@user-pe2cm3gq5d]

Get your Mt. St Helen’s vaccine now!

[@terriestapley5475]

😆😂🤣

[@parkervids3936]

😂🤣

[@wjthehomebuilder]

Best comment! 😆

[@nhmooytis7058]

👏👏👏

[@dannyeugenewaits9486]

😂😂😂😂

[@jamesmaroon6161]

I was their in 1980 when Mt St Helens blew. I still have the ash that was from that Mountain. I climbed Mt Hood, Mt Baker and wanted to climb Mt Rainier but I had a death in my family. I don't live in Washington. I live in North Carolina now. And will watch to see what happens here

[@RoySATX]

The seismologist says they've been monitoring Mt St Helens very closely since the 80s and have a lot of data, Mt St Helens says it feels like they started monitoring her about 2ms ago and says they don't know jack.

[@catherineromero1862]

I was in Guadalajara when MSH belched, post eruption. The ash cloud travelled south and dropped on Guadalajara. The weirdest thing mostly because nobody seemed to knew what it was nor were they particularly curious or perturbed by it 🤷‍♀️ Wasn’t until I flew back to LAX that I found out what it was. 😅

[@janejones8672]

Wow 😮

[@kimfrommn7162]

That's Amazing!!!! 🤗❤️👍🙋🏻‍♀️

[@jeremyhiggins5888]

Hmm, sunspots, polar shift and volcanoes, oh my!?

[@maryhduke2307]

Tsunamis

[@BA-ng9bx]

Yeah the sun is going nuts.

[@YeaHMoM_MG]

I was just up at the Mount St Helens visitor center a few weeks ago, and they were talking about the seismic activity, also.

[@mollyhottinger6075]

Insightful interview with USGS. Thanks!

[@mikeoxhuge]

We're not going to take it anymore!

[@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner]

Oh mike ox huge takes it. I know. I know he takes it.

[@jennrat2982]

😂. Yeah...my first thought when he said talking with Dee Snyder was coming up was "Why?!" 😁

[@deewilson888]

He has no idea.

[@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner]

Is he Jesus?

[@powers1776reset]

@@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner Why make this statement? Does it hurt your feelings when someone states what we’re all thinking?

[@skyybluu3118]

Great video thank you 👍🏻

[@audacyspectrum3612]

KZbinr's: We'll try to give you the facts... USGS: The Easter Bunny is real!

[@ctrlaltdestroy8821]

“This activity is consistent with normal, background levels”. I’m not an expert on seismic graphs, but the red at the current date isn’t consistent with every year before it…

[@JESUSisLORD24151]

Soon YAHWEH will shake the whole earth as well as the heavens. 🙏

[@spiritmiracle8032]

KZbin channel: Archaix

[@theteeslanger9866]

Yes! All these signs are converging at once. I am ready! 🙏

[@Iwishiwasanoscarmeyerweiner]

Jesus and i had a solid night together.

[@mwheape]

Great job.

[@joeanita8654]

And tommows forecast, loud thundering and shaking followed by rocks and fire from the sky. Make sure to take an umbrella with you.

[@Jophiel50]

Oddly, you will find that there are many Oregonians and Washingtonians that don’t own umbrellas…we grow up impervious to rain 😁🤓😎😜😊.

[@ashlingofAsh7580]

Its been waking up. Sure took many to realize

[@ashleyspitzer6672]

Pray Mt St. Helen's does not pull an eruption like it did from 1980.

[@danh3718]

1980 repeat with that glacier growing in the crater facing NE

[@davej7458]

Melt water in the crater can become the triggering event. In 1980 the land slide was a triggering event. Water can trigger a land slide.

[@NineSixteenGenetix916]

2004 as well jeez.

[@nhmooytis7058]

I remember the eruption and visited MSH in 1986. My advice to observers: THIS TIME GET OUTA THE WAY.

[@shooshatowers8059]

Great. Im heading that way.

[@lisawonderful2222]

the big one happened on my birthday Mom thought I'd fallen out of bed and we lived in Burnaby New West border..BC

[@nhmooytis7058]

What did you weigh 😂?

[@deborahparrish2201]

how much do you weigh? lol

[@kikigirlkauai]

What about the cascadia and Juan de fuca plates off coast. They are very active and overdue for a slip. The earth is connected underneath.

[@billsimpson604]

Overdue being the key word. When it slips it will be the worst disaster in US history.

[@louf7178]

Surprised to hear an informative news piece with actual explanation. Glad the USGS had the courage to suggest a critical period is not expected soon.

[@larrybruce4856]

The most interesting part of this video were the commercials. The What's happening with Mt St, Helen's ??? didn't tell us anything we haven't already heard over the last 20 years. Basically, there is small activity but and eruption is------ unpredictable.

[@qsltv1466]

The dude in the TV studio looks like he's mega baked

[@ravenchildofodin4711]

Nah, just half baked😂

[@Matt.Thompson.1976]

@@ravenchildofodin4711 Niiiiiice.

[@jennyb.7340]

He talks too fast for a reporter

[@metroplex3k]

Well he's in Portland - so he probably stopped at his neighborhood methadone clinic on the way to work.

[@user-pe2cm3gq5d]

Snorting some MSH dust. 😵‍💫

[@cvrart]

Do negative earthquakes cancel out regular earthquakes and, if so, how can we get more of them!??! ;-)

[@MrWc867]

Their worse than the positive earthquakes I'm guessing.

[@ejwerme]

No, the magnitude is a measure of energy released. A magnitude 2 earthquake releases 10X the energy of a magnitude 1 earthquake. Those are 10X the energy of a magnitude 0, and that's 10X the magnitude of a -1 quake. Basically, we can measure really, really small quakes.

[@davidgatzen1543]

I think that the way he talked about "negative" earthquakes was confusing. I think what he was talking about is a negative value on the Richter scale. The Richter scale is the logarithm of the amplitude of waves recorded by seismographs. So what that means is that every time you go up by 1 on the Richter scale the amplitude of the earthquake goes up by ten. So if you have an earthquake with magnitude 2, an earthquake with magnitude 3 has an amplitude that is ten times as much. An earthquake with magnitude 7 has an amplitude that is 1000 times higher than a magnitude 4 earthquake. An earthquake with magnitude negative one has an amplitude that is 10 smaller than a magnitude zero earthquake. So basically earthquakes with negative numbers on the Richter scale, are just really small earthquakes, that are so small that you could not feel them. An earthquake with magnitude 1 is too small for people to feel, and an earthquake with magnitude negative one has an amplitude that is 100 times smaller.

[@cvrart]

@@davidgatzen1543 so, the little earthquake that couldn't.

[@pheart2381]

Sounds like a quotation from Alice in Wonderland😊

[@Tom-ahawk]

That graph was the most useful thing. In fairness to the coverage, it's rarely ever clear cut, but the details do matter over time.

[@bartonbella3131]

Lets not forget these same organizations said not to worry last time and led to a tragic loss of life

[@WillyPDX94]

Great explanation of the instrumentation they have in place.

[@jamescrouse3779]

Look at a photo of the mountain looking into the crater from the north in 1980 after the eruption and one from today. It is amazing how fast the mountain is rebuilding itself. In another 45 years, it may have a peak again. If it doesn’t erupt before then.

[@denickite]

Lived through this as a young mom. There was a mad rush to buy food. My husband was on our roof when it went off. He had a great view we got only a small dusting nothing too bad. The other side of the mountains i whole different situation.

[@530MAIDU]

I remember when it blew last time…we were going to my cousins High School Graduation Ceremony and I couldn’t believe people out on the roads putting ash in jars 🫙. It was Scary and Wild, I didn’t anticipate us driving by the Volcano itself but we did. I was pretty shocked. 😳

[@DMKA100]

Wnen the government tell you not to worry about it, thats when you run….

[@whatabouttheearth]

That's an immature logical fallacy, it's just the opposite of "always listen to the government", and just as dumb. Analyze what is being said, don't make a blanket rule of belief or disbelief, either of the latter two is to still have the thought process of an ignorant child.

[@whatabouttheearth]

That's an immature logical fallacy, it's just the opposite of "always listen to the government", and just as dumb. Analyze what is being said, don't make a blanket rule of belief or disbelief, either of the latter two is to still have the thought process of an ignorant child.

[@garysuderman174]

I have a question for the research team: where is Harry Trueman now? Is he spread across the globe, spread downstream into the Ocean or is he buried somewhere still in that area. Maybe another 1000 years we'll learn more but in the meantime, this guy didn't want to answer anything that could make him wrong during his lifetime.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Ever been to Pompeii?

[@andrea439]

Love this guy

[@maryannwatkins7166]

I was in high school, living in the San Joaquin Valley in California. The ash coated everything.

[@katiehorton5507]

2004 it blew due to lava dome rebuilidng. its not sleeping its a going to go again. we can't control what the mountains are going to do she says im going to go im going to go.

[@he_lives_in_apineapple_und9743]

I was in class in HS during that. WE all froze and started running around telling everyone else while standing to watch. It was a very clear day too so I could see it like I was standing there from Portland. Was such a cool expereience.

[@elizabethchase6528]

@@he_lives_in_apineapple_und9743 MSH blew on a Sunday morning...... What h. s. Were you at?

[@danielwhitehouse7682]

Could a little more sound

[@TeresaAvila1]

I was there during the eruptions. Amazing

[@believe5922]

Was I was there in 80. She won't blow that big again they say.

[@andrewroberts6123]

The US Geological Survey Service began monitoring Mt. St Helens well before its eruption on May,18,1980.

[@MikeGreenwood51]

An up-tick. Is that comparable with a second tick rather than a minute? I did not see any charts or any evidence. So how was it supposed to make sense. He could have just been one more alarmist seeing a tiny tremore on a scope from a volcano where tremors are the norm.

[@barrysmith916]

Major volcanoes are becoming active. Five in Europe are going to erupt. Predicted by Edward Meier, Enoch,

[@edwinholcombe2741]

And 2 more volcanos are erupting here in the Philippines

[@whatabouttheearth]

A middle school drop out, ex criminal, who went AWOL from the military and became a professional con man who started a UFO religion 😂 he's not educated or reliable in the least.

[@whatabouttheearth]

A middle school drop out, ex criminal, who went AWOL from the military and became a professional con man who started a UFO religion 😂 he's not educated or reliable in the least.

[@bonnieprice9482]

Thank you for your explanation.. my family and i were heading to alaska from Idaho and stopped in Utah before heading up through northern Idaho ... IT exploded before we left ... otherwise we would have been caught in the ash . Divine intervention !

[@kevinsears7382]

I live in Colorado. When St. Helen’s erupted, we were covered in ash. I had just bought a new car, and I washed it every day for a week to get the abrasive ash off of it.

[@Thunder_Dome45]

There's no negative magnitude. He's pulling your leg. I've had a semester of college geology, so trust me.

[@whatabouttheearth]

You took a few geology classes and think you're a geologist? "Magnitude calculations are based on a logarithmic scale, so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 millimetres as measured on a seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake, then: 10 times less (2 millimetres) corresponds to a magnitude of 1; 100 times less (0.2 millimetres) corresponds to magnitude 0; 1000 times less (0.02 millimetres) corresponds to magnitude -1. An earthquake of negative magnitude is a very small earthquake that is not felt by humans." - USGS

[@whatabouttheearth]

You took a few geology classes and think you're a geologist? "Magnitude calculations are based on a logarithmic scale, so a ten-fold drop in amplitude decreases the magnitude by 1. If an amplitude of 20 millimetres as measured on a seismic signal corresponds to a magnitude 2 earthquake, then: 10 times less (2 millimetres) corresponds to a magnitude of 1; 100 times less (0.2 millimetres) corresponds to magnitude 0; 1000 times less (0.02 millimetres) corresponds to magnitude -1. An earthquake of negative magnitude is a very small earthquake that is not felt by humans." - USGS

[@Thunder_Dome45]

​@@whatabouttheearthwell that's like saying a parked car is traveling -1mph. Or a clear day is -0.01 inches of rainfall. Humans can't feel a 0.01mag earthquake either.

[@Kiwigeo8339]

You cant have paid much attention during your Geology classes. Negative magnitudes are possible if you understand logarithms scales and the effect of instrument scaling on magnitude calculations.

[@randysutton5395]

This is the last thing we need Dam!

[@Cedartreetechnologies]

Nice interview.

[@tazmod7272]

I lived off SE Powell Street west of Gresham when Mt Saint Helens was doing it’s thing. We couldn’t see what was happening very well so we would drive up to Willamette National Cemetery to get a better look.

[@keekeedobalina]

I was in kindergarten the last time it erupted.

[@NineSixteenGenetix916]

It was in 2004, I was in 4th or 5th grade, and no one recalls that happening, just keep talking about the 1980 explosion.

[@LadyHeathersLair]

Why does the picture of MSH look like it was taken pre eruption in 1980?

[@robertcurrie6460]

Because the shot is from Portland which is behind the crater.

[@Soundofwindonsand]

You can't see Mt Saint Helen's from portland...you Can see Mt Hood...

[@lagodifuoco313]

​@@Soundofwindonsand It's zoomed in from Oregon. Yes, with a zoom, you can definitely see it from a high enough elevation in Portland.

[@lagodifuoco313]

​@@Soundofwindonsand You can see Mt. Hood, Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Ranier, Mt. Baker, and even Mt. Shasta in California from the roof tops of Portland buildings on a very clear day.

[@lagodifuoco313]

​@@robertcurrie6460 The thumbnail photo is pre 1980 eruption. The video is a zoomed shot from Portland.

[@virginiajune4812]

Studies of the process a great asset

[@janerobinson5944]

I was in Oregon when it first erupted…and wow what a surprise it was at the time😮

[@jeromejeffery3291]

Don't we have the technology to x-ray Mount Saint Helen, I have seen a video recently showing 2 magma chambers in Yellowstone the Super Volcano isn't it a possible solution to detect how close the Volcano lava has reached the top like it did 1980

[@Kiwigeo8339]

Seismic tomography can be used to image subsurface features such as Yellowstones magma chamber. Imaging of volcanoes that have edifices (ie cones) is a bit more challenging.

[@kristenstudebaker814]

That looks like Mt. Rainier.

[@rokennedy11]

It is 😂

[@Fitzpatrick65]

Wow, I remember when Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980.

[@susanhp6690]

Was there during the whole event. Left town 1 hour after it blew.