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5 May, 2014

Magma chamber recharging

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At a scientific conference in Anchorage, Alaska, Seth Moran, a United States Geological Survey volcanologist reports that uplift at the mountain means the magma chamber about five miles below the volcano is recharging slowly:

What we think has been going on is that it has been slowly recharging, but it has taken us until the last couple of months to really feel confident that we’ve been seeing that

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