California condor makes first trip to Santa Clara in over 30 years. It's an encouraging development, according to Kelly Sorenson, Executive Director of the Ventana Wilderness Society. [San Jose, CA - Topix.net]
Mt. St. Helens shifts to harmonic tremors, eruption coming. The quakes continue to rumble and actually seem to be increasing in magnitude, but even more important is the fact that the gap between quakes has dropped completely, with the mountain shifting to harmonic tremors. [Mac Net Journal]
The first condors in Santa Clara County in 30 years is an amazing triumph of the efforts to save the condor. The first major rumblings of Mt Saint Helens in 20 years, is also cool (I am a geologist, after all), but certainly more worrisome.
As Rob McNair-Huff, an eruption on the north side that breaches Spirit Lake could once again devastate the Toutle and Cowlitz Rivers and the people living along them. A greater hazard, however, exits to the south. A debris avalanche/explosion like May 18, 1984 to the south, could breach three large reservoirs on the Lewis River with much greater potential for flooding and devastation.
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