RetiredType40

Oooh, another one - okay, I know this isn't strictly a earthquake question, but in the neighborhood: What of the odds of seeing something cool* happen at Mount St Helens again, or was May 18th pretty much the grand finale`?

. * Cool in a pyrotechnics sort of way, not necessarily a scientific sort of way, of which I imagine we're getting a constant stream of knowledge from, and that's always cool.

You only get hurricanes. . . .

As we've seen from last weekend's "OMG End of the World!" fizzleout, the region loves to overstate weather/nature apocalypses. I've been hearing about impending The Big One, the one that will level Seattle and send us back to the stone age for as long I can remember, that it's kind of lost it's impact. So is it really still a thing and when should I expect it?

How close is the prediction technology to operational? I heard about the California prediction from last week, but it looks like that kind of fizzled out, so clearly it's not there yet. Is the technology pretty close? A ways off yet? Almost there but needs fine tuning?