Mt ST Helens: 15-month eruption still producing lava at astonishing rate

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By PEGGY ANDERSEN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

SEATTLE -- For more than a year now, Mount St. Helens has been oozing lava into its crater at the rate of roughly a large dump truck load - 10 cubic yards - every three seconds.

With the sticky molten rock comes a steady drumfire of small earthquakes.

The movement of lava up through the southwest Washington volcano is "like a sticky piston trying to rise in a rusty cylinder," U.S. Geological Survey geologist Dave Sherrod said Thursday in a telephone interview from the agency's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash.

"These quakes are very small - we think they're associated with that sticking and slipping as the ground is deformed and relaxes."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6600AP_WST_Mount_St_Helens.html

[SpiralHawk]

1. Little Sister

breathe easy. We are singing of you.

[benddem]

2. she's just trying

to get back to her old size.

[tonka023]

4. I think

seems like I heard something last year where
she has already recovered her former size.
She was growing at a rate of about a
football field a day for aawhile there.

[Lisa]

3. perhaps Bush's speeches have brought on this fit of barfing?

Probably the most nauseating thing she's heard, in all her thousands of years of existence!