Volcanic island a threat to US coast
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LONDON: A scientist looking to pinpoint the next big earthquake has warned the US east coast could be destroyed by a tsunami unleashed by the collapse of a volcanic island in the eastern Atlantic.
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A tremor at Mount St Helens volcano in the US state of Washington prompts fresh warnings of an eruption.
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Giant tsunamis are more likely to hit the U.S. Pacific coast than to hit Asia, scientists say. Coastal residents may have only 15 minutes' warning.
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DarkHand writes &quot;Mount St. Helens has become even more unstable in the last few hours. The US Geological Surveys Cascades Volcano Observatory has increased the volcanic alert around the volcano to level 2
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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A surge of strong earthquakes under Mount St. Helens yesterday has seismologists worried that rock and ash could explode from the volcano&#39;s dome -- leading scientists to take the rare precaution of issuing a warning for a possible eruption.
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Pressure at a simmering Indonesian volcano on Java island escalated Friday, a geologist warned, as armed police forced some defiant villagers to evacuate ahead of a potential eruption.
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Oct. 7, 2004 - US authorities on Wednesday lowered the eruption alert around the Mount St. Helens volcano, saying that an explosion of the simmering peak was no longer imminent.
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Faced with the possibility of an imminent eruption of the Mount St. Helens volcano, Weyerhaeuser and the Washington State Department of Transportation said Sunday
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The Azores islands in the mid-Atlantic have been placed on high alert for Hurricane Gordon.
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By Carl Mario Nudi, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 23--ANNA MARIA ISLAND -- The barrier islands have been spared another week of the unbearable effects of red tide.
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After the tsunami disaster in Asia, some scientists have claimed that an even bigger catastrophe threatens Spain's Canary Islands, where a volcanic eruption could unleash a mega-tsunami which would flatten the ...
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Government scientists have raised the alert level for the Mount St. Helens volcano in the northwestern US state of Washington, saying the next eruption could threaten lives and property near the mountain.
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The US government has warned its citizens in Nordic and Baltic states of the threat of imminent terrorist attacks, the BBC said Monday.
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VANCOUVER, Wash.  - Scientists tracking earthquake  activity at Mount St. Helens raised their warning level on  Saturday to a Level 3-Volcano Alert, and officials ordered the  evacuation of a visitor center about five miles from the  volcano's crater.
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Government scientists have warned hikers and researchers not to go near the crater of the Mount St. Helens volcano because there is an &quot;increased likelihood&quot; an explosion
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Hurricane Ivan's storm surge and pounding waves swamped the barrier islands that stand guard along the central Gulf of Mexico coast, eroding their protective sand and causing millions of dollars in damage, coastal experts said.