Mt. St. Helens Eruption!

This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory (updated approximately every five minutes). 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.  (See also: Mt. St. Helens Erupting video)

 

For more information visit the USDA Forest Service Mt. St. Helens Site

Just a few years ago Mount Pinatubo in The Philippines went boom and lowered the global temperature by 0.5 degrees Celsius a year after its eruption.  How many more need to go before we have the equivalent of a nuclear winter (volcanic winter)?  Mt. St. Helens is one of the volcanoes, along with Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. Fiji in the Ring of Fire.

Breaking Volcano News! - prepared by Volcanologist John Search.

Doomsday Volcanoes - Doomsday Guide's Volcano Page.

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