Mt. Fitzherbert
News Report Update
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Rockfall plumes draw attention to simmering volcano
2005-Nov-22 15:30
from The Seattle Post-Intellegencer
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- Rockfall at Mount St. Helens kicked up a dust plume Tuesday that rose above the rim of the volcano's crater, drawing attention in the region.
"It's a nice sunny day and we're having the first couple of rockfalls that we've had in a while that are putting little dust plumes over the crater rim," said U.S. Geological Survey geologist Seth Moran at the agency's Cascade Volcano Observatory here, about 50 miles south of the mountain that erupted to deadly effect in May 1980.
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St. Helens puts on a (small) show
2005-Nov-22 16:29
from KING (Ch. 5) Seattle
ST. HELENS, Wash. – Mount St. Helens pushed a column of steam tinged with ash about 10,000 feet into the air late Tuesday afternoon.
Seismographs near the mountain did not record any earthquake activity associated with the burst and a spokesman for the USGS said the burst was not an explosive eruption, but a condensation plume caused by rockfall.