Mt. Hood Does Some Shaking of Its Own
By Kristian Foden-Vencil
PORTLAND, OR 2004-10-04 (OPB Radio) - Mt. St. Helens isn't the only mountain on the move in the Pacific Northwest today. At about 7 this morning Mt. Hood experienced a magnitude 2.7 earthquake.
Willie Scott with the US Geological Survey says the two events are not linked.
Willie Scott: Mt. Hood has earthquakes quite frequently. It's one of the more seismically active Cascade volcanoes. This is a typical event for Mt. Hood, they sometimes come a little bit larger, but it occurred and is being followed by a series of smaller earthquakes.
Scott says Mt. Hood has been relatively quite since 2002 when an earthquake magnitude 4.5 occurred.
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