LITERAL MORAN!! Seth Moran (lol) says Mt St Helens slowly rebuilding and will erupt again

Geologists were surprised that the mountain stopped erupting in 1986. "Many of us were expecting it to continue a while," said USGS seismologist Seth Moran..

The second lava dome, which started appearing in 2004, appeared at a different spot in the crater. Lava that appeared from 2004-08 was much more solid than during the earlier phase.


Eventually, the crater will fill in and the peak may return to the lovely rounded shape it had before 1980.

A model may be the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, which erupted in 1956 and has largely filled in since then. "It probably is the future for Mount St. Helens," Moran said. "It will rebuilt itself. It may just take a lot longer to get there."



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