Mount St. Helens Volcano - Current Update
CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY WEEKLY UPDATE
Friday, July 3, 2009 15:14 PDT (Friday, July 3, 2009 22:14 UTC)
Cascade Range Volcanoes
Volcano Alert Level: NORMAL
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.
Mount St. Helens has been at Volcano Alert Level NORMAL (Aviation Color Code GREEN) since July 10, 2008.
Recent Observations: Monitoring systems show that activity at Cascade Range volcanoes during the past week remains at background levels.
The U.S. Geological Survey and University of Washington continue to monitor these volcanoes closely and will issue additional updates and changes in alert level as warranted
Source: Cascade Range Current Update
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
Volcano Cam not available at night,
please come back after sunrise Pacific Time to see the Volcano Cam image.
Sunrise will occur at 5:29 AM PDT.
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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. |
Information courtesy of ...
U.S. Geological Survey, Vancouver, Washington
University of Washington, Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network, Seattle, Washington
USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
Cascade Range Current Update
USGS Alert-Notification System for Volcanic Activity
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