What a great thread.

When I stared here on ATS it was because of St. Helens. She was making noise again, and there were excelent threads on here where we all discused it. Solar activity was the number one thing that we found to go hand in hand with it all. Another thing I noticed was that Rainier started rumbling the months prior to the first big quake (dec. 26 tsunami quake) then it began rumbling again every day - once again - getting more and more intense then that same area had another quake though not as bad it was an 8.?. After the qakes, Rainier went quiet immediatly. This fact also caught the eye of many scientists. That is when they started looking into the magma chabers. St. Helens as sill erupting so many wondered if it was connected to Rainier. That was when they found out that Rainier and a few others was on a totaly different chamber system than the rest of the cascades. They also found that there was a moving magma chamber heading north west under the united states. That was something that had a group of several scientists from all over the world researching. I never heard any more from that though.

Also, I remember at the time they were looking into all this, they were looking in the ocean off the coast of Washington and found a reef of glass sponges. This was amazing because they thought glass sponge reefs went extinct 100 million years ago. They said it was spectacular and housed an amazing amount of ocean life. Equaly amazing they found that the food source for this thriving ecosystem was methane gass that was seeping out of the ocean floor.....something else they didnt expect to find.

The one thing that I think was figured out through out this whole process was there are a lot more variables than any of us had anticipated.

Rumbling usually means pressure is building. That pressure is going to escape out of the weakest point. Has the rumblings stopped since the Chile quakes?

The one thing I am most curious about is: What is causing the pressure to build up? The sun has been quite explosive as well. So is the sun doing something that in turn causes pressure here? Or, is it that whatever is causing the pressure to build in our planet also causing pressure to build in the sun?

Originally posted by traveler928
Thanks for this post. I'd never knew about the new volcano. I'm kinda new to this stuff so can someone tell me what 'HT' means?

Thanks!

I was wondering the same thing, maybe someone will be kind enough to answer us both.

I was wondering as well...

What's HT, please.

I've found high-titanium, high-temperature...

and if HT is not a commonly understood thing a small explanation would be really helpful!

HT, for the purposes of this discussion, refers to Harmonic Tremors. They are a specific type of lower level amplitude earthquake indicative of magma movement in volcanic regions, and have become a known potential precursor to volcanic eruptions.

They are characterized by real long, steady, and sometimes "beading" signatures on seismographs. Since we observed something that appeared similar at station SMNR, that is what this discussion is about. But it almost assuredly is not, and is man made activity, from further analysis by several people here on top of the issue, such as puterman and myself.

Originally posted by Anmarie96
I like a mistery, especially when they can be solved. Would you post a map of station PBO - B941. I am not sure they are one in the same. Daily Activity at that station as well. - or are they one in the same?

Here is PBO-B941:



The bright green square marks the station. And as you can see, this station also sits among a web of man made activity. Many people do not understand how insanely sensitive these instruments are. So all that stuff that close can and will register on these stations, despite electronic filters they put on them to filter out higher frequencies. The low frequency component of every car, train, truck, etc, will likely register that close.

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I live in WA seattle area I havent noticed anything, besides the weather being weird but it's good to know whats under me.
hopefully if its a caldera its the kind that only blows not anytime in the next thousand's of years. Or it wont be pretty for any living here.

Being a life long resident, I agree something is different here the past few months.

I haven't read everything that has been posted so far but I got a good idea of where the thread has been going since if you pay attention it hasnt been hard to notice.

First off did anyone see the double reverse rainbows across the lakes while the sky looked like dark storm with heavy rain, yet sunny and warm?

Sure has been very warm at night and I cant remember the last time our skys have been so clear this time of year.

Isn't if funny how weak of a winter we had yet the rest of the country including cali didn't have it so nice.


I agree sounds are different and everything feels more muted sound wise. Ive also felt like our pressure has changed.

Guess we will see how well the earthquake retro project for our highways went. Obviously we have all had earthquakes on the brain and we haven't had a big one in many years now.

Edit: My animals have been out of sorts too

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