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2004 November 06

Latest News Reports

  • Mount St. Helens sprouts 30-story glowing lobe 2004-Nov-06 from Seattle Post-Intellegencer/Associated Press

    The new lava lobe inside Mount St. Helens' crater has sprouted a pistonlike protrusion the size of a 30-story building -- glowing red at night.

    "The magma is pushing the plug upward. It's going high in the sky," said hydrologist Carolyn Driedger of the U.S. Geological Survey at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, about 50 miles from the southwest Washington mountain.

  • Lava lobe growing at Mount St. Helens 2004-Nov-06 from Seattle Times/Associated Press

    The new lava lobe in Mount St. Helens' crater has sprouted a pistonlike protrusion the size of a 30-story building — glowing red at night.

    "The magma is pushing the plug upward. It's going high in the sky," said hydrologist Carolyn Driedger of the U.S. Geological Survey at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash.

  • Mount St. Helens lava formation grows 2004-Nov-06 from KING (ch.5) Seattle/Associated Press

    SEATTLE — A lava formation inside Mount St. Helens' crater has a new, glowing protrusion the size of a 30-story building. The protrusion, which glows red at night, has risen by 330 feet in the past nine days, pushed up by magma, or molten rock, within the volcano, scientists said Friday.

  • Mount St. Helens lava formation grows 2004-Nov-06 10:33 from KOMO (ch.4) Seattle/Associated Press

    MT. ST. HELENS - The new lava lobe inside Mount St. Helens' crater has sprouted a piston-like protrusion the size of a 30-story building - glowing red at night.