[Geysers] GIANT, October 8 @ 1341--p.s.

[Tara Cross]

Forgot to mention that the interval was 4d10h45m.  (!!!)  Maybe Giant is speeding up?

--Tara Cross
fanandmortar at hotmail.com


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> From: fanandmortar at hotmail.com
> To: geysers at wwc.edu
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 18:29:38 -0600
> Subject: [Geysers] GIANT, October 8 @ 1341
> 
> In when I was in the park this summer, I joked that I was running the Giant Hotline via my cell phone as gazers outside the park were calling me to find out what's going on.  Now I have become the Giant Information Relay Service.  This info once again from Jeff Cross (who, if you're wondering, has now seen 6 eruptions in a row):
> 
> Jeff wasn't really expecting Giant today since it had been less than 4 1/2 days, but went down to check Grotto, and observed the following sequence of events:
> 
> 1242ie Grotto Fountain
> 1246 Grotto
> 1250 Marathon Pool very high, Spa about 2 feet down and quiet
> 1317 back vent of Mastiff had a sustained surge to 3 feet that lasted 15-20 seconds (Jeff noted that this was not the first time he'd seen that this fall)
> 1326 Rocket major (only 40 minutes after Grotto)
> 
> 1328 Bijou pause
> 1329 Giant hot period.  Southwest Vents started first, followed by a very weak feather.
> 1332 Rust and Feather Satellite started, and Mastiff began to have heavier overflow and boiling.
> 1325 Cave bubbling to 3-6 inches, Mastiff surging to 3 feet, and Bijou came on.
> 1337 Mastiff dropped out of sight, and simultaneously Bijou started roaring.  Then all vents quit except for the Southwest Vents.
> 1338 Less than a minute after the end of Feather, it restarted along with every other hole in front of Giant.
> About 30 seconds later, Giant started to have big surges and bursting in its cone.  This progressed over about 2 minutes, then
> 1341 GIANT, max height 180 feet or so.  Duration 91 minutes.
> 
> Grotto quit sometime during the hot period.
> 
> This is the second consecutive eruption from a Feather restart and the third consecutive "Normal Function" eruption.  As a matter of (probably) meaningless trivia, Giant's eruptions have come in groups of 3 Normal, then 3 Mastiff, and so on starting with the June 17 eruption (that's 15 eruptions).
> 
> --Tara Cross
> fanandmortar at hotmail.com
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