One view of this eruption is that we're at the end of the eruption that began in 1980.

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This eruption has gotten increasingly sluggish. There's almost no gas being produced. We haven't had a big event since the (36,000 foot high) ash plume in March 2005, and we're feeling increasingly comfortable that we're looking at the sluggish end of this. ... I don't see how it can go on for another year without stalling.

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One view of this eruption is that we're at the end of the eruption that began in 1980. If it hadn't been so cataclysmic . . . it might instead have gone through 30 or 40 years of dome-building and small explosions.

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We haven't had that kind of plume since March 8, which is either a blessing or it leads us into complacency. We avoid complacency.

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