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Report calls for increased volcano monitoring
Mount St. Helens gets a lot of attention, but there's other hazards out there...
Free admission for 25th anniversary of eruption
In memory of the 25th anniversary of the 1980 eruption, all fees (including visitors center admission) will be waived at Mount St. Helens national monument on Wednesday, May 18.
Also, the Johnston Ridge Observatory is set to reopen Friday, May 6, for the summer, and other facilities are expanding hours.
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Cool time-lapse photography of steam eruption...
Here's a time-lapse photography sequence of the March 6 steam eruption. It's from an interesting volcano-cam site, put together by a Portland resident who has a view of the mountain on clear days.
Emerging dome evolving on St. Helens
Check out this story, from AP:
Surging seismic activity at Mount St. Helens has changed the whale-back shape of the volcano's emerging new dome, leaving it more like the back of a stegosaurus – a dinosaur with bony plates of armor along its spine.
Action inside the crater keeps destroying instruments placed on the new dome, so it's not clear how much movement has occurred there.
