BREAKING NEWS: Evacuations ordered at Mount Saint Helens

[Brent]

and the alert level has been raised. Lava is moving under the surface! Eruption could be imminent. "Threat to life" described.

[James]

Any time now.

[Brent]

Earthquakes have stopped and now it's a continous tremor. The tourist observatory is what is being evacuated. It's about 5 miles from the mountain. No one lives up there...

[James]

Do you have a link to a site showing how these levels are classified?

[TazzyD]

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Warn/WarnSchemes.html

http://www.volcanolive.com/alerts.html

and....

an article from today: http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Science&cat=Earthquakes_and_Volcanoes

[Brent]

They are expecting it to be 10 to 20 times larger than Friday's steam explosion. In 1980... it was 2 months of tremors before the big eruption. They do it expect within the next day or two though.

[vbhoutex]

One of the things that prompted the evacuation was that the tremors became harmonic which indicates lava or magma moving near the surface I believe.

[James]

http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/Products/Warn/WarnSchemes.html

http://www.volcanolive.com/alerts.html

and....

an article from today: http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=Science&cat=Earthquakes_and_Volcanoes

Thanks a lot!

[canegrl04]

Last night on the news,a scientist said a crack has developed on the south flank,and they have now detected the odor of gas.NOT GOOD
A violent eruption on the south side could take place.

[weatherlover427]

I wonder what this could mean as in future implications??

[chicagopizza]

Are they still saying it will be smaller than 1980 this morning?

[Josephine96]

What are they saying about the eruption..?