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Submitted by Rick on Wed, 11/30/2005 - 8:50pm.

In interesting breakdown of the effects of the Nisqually earthquake from University of Washington News and Information:

In the Nisqually earthquake, GPS sensors showed a Coast Guard station at Point Robinson on the east edge of Maury Island moved 8 millimeters to the south-southwest and the UW campus moved 5 millimeters -- about two-tenths of an inch -- south-southwest. The data showed that Satsop, which is about midway between the epicenter and the Washington coast, moved west about 6 millimeters and Pacific Beach, on the coast, moved northwest about 4 millimeters.

Though currently there are no measurements, Qamar also expects that data eventually will show that areas west of the earthquake's focus deep beneath the Nisqually River delta north of Olympia rose as much as a half-inch in the quake. He expects that areas to the east will have dropped about one-third of an inch. (An earthquake's epicenter is the area on the surface that lies directly above the hypocenter, or focus.)

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I saw a big plume rising up w

I saw a big plume rising up while riding up the bridge to the W - side earlier, around sunset. I am wondering if it was Mt St Helens! Does anyone have information?

Here's a link to the FS website, but I couldn't find info about any events specifically today. There'd be more noise if it was anything major.

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Okay, try this one - it's a l

Okay, try this one - it's a little better. 30,000 feet ash plumes!
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The Mount St. Helens VolcanoC

The Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam is down for now, or they have purple snow up there. Hopefully they can safely get it back up and running soon.

And yet another geological phenomena to be concerned about: The Super Flood, lahars from Mount Rainier.

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