Mount St. Helens Volcano - Current Update
CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY
Friday, September 3, 2010 8:50 AM PDT (Friday, September 3, 2010 15:50 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: Seismicity has been at normal, background levels in the Cascades this past week, although this morning a brief flurry of small earthquakes occurred at Mount Hood. Such seismic activity at Mount Hood occurs commonly and is not extraordinary or unusual. Field crews flew around Mount Hood and Mount Adams yesterday making measurements of background fluxes of volcanic gases, and today field crews are at Mount St. Helens conducting routine instrumentation maintenance and doing scientific field investigations.
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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