Volcanos and Earthquakes

Mt. St. Helens is having a minor eruption now. I can see it from my building, 60 miles away. Pretty cool.




Also, there have been a series of minor earthquakes around here lately. Including a couple happening in the past 2 days -- one of them (seen below) occurred along the same fault near Molalla/Woodburn that caused 30 million in damage back in 1993 following a magnitude 5.6 quake. I went to look up the recent ones on a map (see below) and found an article saying:

Nearly 17,000 earthquakes of magnitude 1.0 to 6.0 have been recorded in Oregon and Washington since 1970. About 15-20 quakes a year are felt in the Northwest. Earthquakes are usually felt if they are at least magnitude 3 to 4.

Here's the recent quakes around here. You can even see the seismic activity on Mt. St. Helens in this picture.





Here's direct access to the volcanocam here as well as a link to the interactive earthquake map.