If they’re not worried about it, heck, why should we be?

Lava glows in this time-exposure photograph taken just after nightfall at Mount St. Helens in Washington State Wednesday, March 9, 2005 from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. Reporters and photographers were given access to the currently closed observatory to view the mountain a day after a sudden eruption sent ash and steam 36,000 feet into the air. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

From Yahoo, you can read this article. Here’s a portion from it:

The blast of ash and gas was not powerful enough to visibly scar the surface of the crater, but it was strong enough to destroy several monitoring stations used by scientists to keep tabs on the mountain, officials said.

Scientists did not know what caused the larger-than-normal plume, but noted that in the hours preceding the incident the seismograph readings had changed. While the peaks, indicating the strength of each seismic burst, were no higher than normal, the line separating them had become “noisier,” said Major.

“Usually that line is nice and flat. Instead it was creeping up and getting noisier and noisier,” he said, drawing on his pad a vertical squiggle that became darker as he drew it out horizontally.

But volcanologists had seen that pattern before when it did not lead to such a large belch.

I dunno, bunch of ash, a glowing dome, I’d be getting the H-E-double L out of there, wouldn’t you? Time for a nice long stay with some relatives back east, eh?