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:: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 ::
Rumble, Rumble
Mt. Rainier apparently has decided that it needs to get a piece of the media attention being showered upon Mt. St. Helens and started a little bit of moving and shaking.
Mount Rainier shook with a 3.2-magnitude earthquake, but scientists said Tuesday the quake was not related to recent rumblings at Mount St. Helens, its sister volcano 50 miles to the south.
The quake was centered one mile below the surface of Rainier's crater, said Bill Steele of the Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network at the University of Washington.
"Directly under the volcano, that's a significant size," Steele said. One other 3.2-magnitude quake has been recorded at the mountain in the past 30 years: on February 19, 2002.
Sunday's quake occurred within a cluster of 17 to 18 shallow temblors over several hours, he said.
Steele said quake activity at Rainier has increased over normal levels in recent weeks. Five quakes greater than magnitude 2.0 were recorded October 25-31, he said.
Mount Rainier, which has been volcanically active for between a million and a half years, last erupted about 150 years ago and scientists say it's likely to erupt again at some point.
Insert your evils of Microsoft (headquartered in Redmond, WA, in the volcano's shadow) joke here.
:: The Squire 5:44 PM :: email this post :: ::
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