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St. Helens puts on a (small) show
04:29 PM PST on Tuesday, November 22, 2005
ST. HELENS, Wash. – Mount St. Helens pushed a column of steam tinged with ash about 10,000 feet into the air late Tuesday afternoon. Seismographs near the mountain did not record any earthquake activity associated with the burst and a spokesman for the USGS said the burst was not an explosive eruption, but a condensation plume caused by rockfall. KING A cloud of steam and ash rises above Mount St. Helens, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005.
In fact, according to a spokeswoman for the Cascades Volcano Observatory, the kind of steam seen Tuesday has been happening regularly. We just haven't been able to see it because of bad weather.
Spokeswoman Cynthia Gardner said the volcano is always producing steam, but in this case, a rockfall that produced a lot of dust laced the steam cloud, making it more visible on a clear fall day.
"It's the benefit of having clear weather right now," she said.
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