STORM2K

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

Any time now.

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...

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

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

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.

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.

TazzyD wrote: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!

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.

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

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

What are they saying about the eruption..?