email sent to the staff at the montserrat volcano observatory (november 25, 2002)
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Email sent to the staff at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (November 25, 2002) To the IDIOTS working at the MVO: - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Email sent to the staff at the Montserrat Volcano Observatory (November 25, 2002)
To the IDIOTS working at the MVO:
You are a bunch of contemptible subhuman jerks. Even if it wasn’t your plan to wreck the Montserrat economy and make people afraid to come to Montserrat – this is the effect of your so called “scientific” closing of all areas remotely near the Belham Valley. With the exception of course of your new Villa or “Observatory above Happy Hills.
You idiots banned a very old man from living in his home in Old Towne – and more than likely the deep depression of his final days was due to the actions of you UK idiots. I hope that when you are really old, some young idiots do exactly to you what you have done to this old man, as well as other people who have been locked out of their homes. The actions and behavior of the MVO staff is far more political than it is scientific. For this reason I consider you all to be whores for the government of the UK who seems determined to do more damage to Montserrat than the volcano already has.
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Seismicity
Sampling
GPS
Gas Monitoring
Photo by Matt Watson
Photo Courtesy of Ricky Herd
Photo courtesy of Lizzette Rodriguez
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The “Sunday, 16 January 2005, 3am Event”… “The impact and scale of the 16 January event are similar to those of the 1 October event that showered the September 1984 lobe with ballistics, damaging a seismometer and GPS station.” –W. Scott
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Drop in seismicity following the October 5 steam-and-ash emission
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Earthquakes are remarkably shallow
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1980-86 Dome
Glacier
Old rock-fall debris avalanche material
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Older Crevasses
USGS Photo by John Pallister26 September 2004
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9/30/2004: Cracks indicating uplift, observed on what geologists now nicknamed “Loaf”
1984 block nicknamed “Opus”
USGS Photo by Dan Dzurisin and Mike Poland
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October 1
USGS Photo by John Pallister
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Photo provided my M. Trabant, taken from a passing commercial airliner on October 5.
View looking southwest
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This image represents a differencing between the year 2000 and the 4 October 2004 Photogrammetric DEMs.
Figure by Steve Schilling and Linda Mark
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In-house, short-fuse instrumentation development led by Rick LaHusen. One of the sling-loaded “Spyder” packages dropped inside the crater.
USGS Photo by Jeff Wynn
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Slinging in a “Spider”…
GPS antenna
Communications Antenna
USGS Photo by John Pallister
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Can you see it? This image gives you a sense of the scales involved here…
USGS Photo by Jeff Wynn
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“Dome-Cam”, compliments of our brothers and sisters at the Hawaii Volcano Observatory
USGS Photo by Gene Iwatsubo
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21 October: expanding south towards the crater wall
USGS Photo by Steve Schilling
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October 12
USGS Photo by Jeff Wynn
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Magma supply rate by late October 2004 is calculated at > 7 cubic meters/sec
USGS Photo by Dave Schneider
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Preliminary Sketch-map of the Geology as of 27 October (by D. Sherrod) superimposed on 14 Oct DEM
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USGS Photo by Steve Schilling29 October
Your test for the day:
Find the helicopter
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“CLF4” Spider-- moved 30+ m south and 12 m west -- in 5 days
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4 November
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USGS Photo by John Pallister, 29 November 2004
In order to get measurable repeat images, a photo station was installed at “Brutus”, a dangerous point on the east rim of MSH. A tripod is well-emplaced, and cameras will be periodically positioned on it. No camera system we are aware of has enough power to heat it and keep it free of rime-ice during the brutal winters in the northern Cascades.
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USGS Photo by John Pallister, 29 November 2004
Old Dome
“Whaleback”?
?
“Brutus”
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November 29
USGS Photo by Dan Dzurisin
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USGS Photo by Dan Dzurisin – Deploying the “Photo Spyder” – 14 January 2005 – Whaleback in background
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USGS Photo by Dan Dzurisin – Liftoff with Photo Spyder – 14 January 2005
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USGS Photo by John Pallister - A new L1 GPS Spyder installed on 14 January 2005 (and trashed by the 16 January event)
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USGS Photo by John Pallister, 1 February 2005
A comparison: the New Dome now stands several hundred meters higher than the Old Dome
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September 2006