Scientists say eruption danger has eased at Mount St. Helens

From: Daily Breeze | Date: October 7, 2004| Author: Gene Johnson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Copyright information

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- Scientists dropped the alert level for Mount St. Helens on Wednesday, saying occasional steam blasts and possibly some eruptions of fresh volcanic rock could last for weeks or months.

"We no longer think that an eruption is imminent in the sense of minutes or hours," Willie Scott, a geologist at the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Wash., said after scientists reported a lower level of seismic activity at the mountain.

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