{"id":175626,"date":"2023-11-08T11:24:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/400-earthquakes-recorded-under-mount-st-helens-since-mid-julyupdated-2-hours-ago"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:24:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T17:24:29","slug":"400-earthquakes-recorded-under-mount-st-helens-since-mid-julyupdated-2-hours-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/400-earthquakes-recorded-under-mount-st-helens-since-mid-julyupdated-2-hours-ago","title":{"rendered":"400 earthquakes recorded under Mount St. Helens since mid-JulyUpdated 2 hours ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/400-earthquakes-recorded-under-mount-st-helens-since-mid-julyupdated-2-hours-ago.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 400 earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since mid-July, the largest chain of shakes since the volcano finished erupting in 2008, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/observatories\/cvo\/news\/uptick-earthquake-activity-mount-st-helens-remains-within-background-levels\">U.S. Geological Survey reported last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Small magnitude earthquakes, detected only by sensitive equipment, signal a volcano\u2019s \u201crecharging\u201d as magma flows through chambers and cracks deep under the ground, said Wes Thelen, U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory geophysicist and seismologist.<\/p>\n<p>Between late August and early September, scientists observed 40 to 50 earthquakes per week located between 2.5 to 5 miles below the crater floor, before recently dwindling to 30. To compare, Mount St. Helens averaged roughly 11 quakes per month since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 400 earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since mid-July, the largest chain of shakes since the volcano finished erupting in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey reported last week. Small magnitude earthquakes, detected only by sensitive equipment, signal a volcano\u2019s \u201crecharging\u201d as magma flows through chambers and cracks deep under the ground, said Wes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}