Mount St. Helens Volcano - Current Update
CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY
Friday, October 15, 2010 9:34 AM PDT (Friday, October 15, 2010 16:34 UTC)
CASCADE RANGE VOLCANOES
Current Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
Current Aviation Color Code: GREEN
Activity Update: All volcanoes in the Cascade Range are at normal levels of background seismicity. These include Mount Baker, Glacier Peak, Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams in Washington State; Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson, Three Sisters, Newberry Volcano, and Crater Lake, in Oregon; and Medicine Lake volcano, Mount Shasta, and Lassen Peak in northern California.
Recent Observations: Activity throughout the Cascade Range remained at normal background levels during the past week. No unusual seismicity, ground deformation, or other type of volcano-related activity was noted. A field crew from the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory repaired and did routine instrument maintenance at a monitoring station near South Sister volcano in central Oregon.
Source: Cascade Range Current Update
Mount St. Helens Volcano Cam
This is a static image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory.
The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet,
about five miles from the volcano.
You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley.
The VolcanoCam image automatically updates approximately every five minutes.
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Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
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