How Mt. St. Helens eruption affected Washington State’s Economy On Sunday‚ May 18‚ 1980‚ at 8:32am‚ Mt. St. Helen’s erupted. Most people don’t realize how the eruption affected our economy. It affected Washington’s forestry / forest production‚ trade‚ transportation‚ topography‚ fisheries‚ and wildlife. Our Economy lost millions of dollars. Let’s see how it affected our economy. First‚ let’s start with forestry/forest production. This affected companies which had been logging. The companies
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Mt St. Helens Introduction Mount St. Helens is a volcanic mountain in the Cascade Range in Western North America‚ in the state of Washington. It is‚ perhaps‚ the most famous mountain in the range‚ and certainly is the most active volcano in the area today. In fact‚ it has probably been the most active of the Cascade volcanoes for over 4000 years. If the eruption of 18th May 1980 follows the pattern of previous eruptions the mountain will remain very active for perhaps ten or twenty years before
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Mount St. Helens. Mount St Helens is a volcano in a national park in Washington State‚ USA. It had been thought to be dormant for many years‚ until in 1980‚ when it suddenly burst to life. On March 20th‚ the huge volcano suddenly ‘woke up’ when there was a 4.1 Richter scale earthquake‚ and over the next 28 days‚ there were hundreds of other recordable earthquakes. On the 25th March‚ there were 22 significant earthquakes in just 8 hours. On March 27th‚ a huge earthquake ripped a massive crater
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Allison Introduction My report is on Mt. Saint Helens. Before 1980‚ symmetrical Mt. Saint Helens was known as “Fujiyama of America.” (http://mountsthelens.com/history-1.html) Mt. Saint Helens erupted on May 18‚ 1980. It was one of the most deadly eruptions in America. Mt. Saint Helens height used to be 9‚677 ft making it the 5th highest peak in Washington. It’s height was reduced to 1‚300 ft after it exploded in 1980. Mt. Saint Helens is almost 53 km west of Mt. Adams and approximately 80 km Northeast
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Mt St Helens – Script Introduction of Theory From the deepest ocean trenches to the highest mountain rangers‚ plate tectonics explain all of the features from the past and present. A plate tectonic is a theory that was developed in the 1960s. According to the concept‚ Earth has a rigid layer called the lithosphere‚ which is normally 100km thick. The lithosphere is broken up into seven large continental and oceanic plates‚ six or seven medium sized regional plates‚ and various small ones. These
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Mount St. Helen is a very active volcano classified as a stratovolcano‚ stratovolcano is basically a tall volcano built up of layer after layer of hard lava‚ tephra‚ pumice‚ and volcanic ash. Mount St. Helens location is in Skamania County in Washington‚ with coordinates of 46 12’00.17"N122 11’21.13"W. Mount St Helen is famous because of its catastrophic eruption on May eighteenth in nineteen eighty. The eruption measured a five on the volcanic explosivity index. This is an index created by Chris
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Geography study on the differences Between the volcanoes MT st Helens and Kilauea Kilauea is a volcano in the Hawaiian Islands it is one of the five shield volcanoes in the Hawaiian language Kilauea means spewing or spreading. Mt St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington it is named after British diplomat lord st Helens. There are many differences between the volcanoes for example the explosivity of the two volcanoes most recent eruptions are completely different Kilauea is almost
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Case Study 1- Volcanic eruption at MEDC Volcanic Eruption at Mount St Helens LOCATION Washington State‚ North West U.S.A. The Rocky Mountains CAUSE | |This area is located on a destructive plate boundary | | |N. American Plate (continental crust) and Juan de Fuca plate (Pacific plate(oceanic crust) collided – a subduction zone | |
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world renowned for their activity and their power to change the region surrounding them. The two volcanoes would be Mount Saint Helens and Mount Kilauea. In order to get a better understanding of these volcanoes we will be comparing and contrasting them as well as talking about how they were formed and when they last had an eruption. Let’s begin with Mount St. Helens which is located in the pacific northwest of the United States. To be more specific it is located in Washington State and is a part
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television has become increasingly beneficial‚ it becomes useless in an emergency if power is lost. If the information is deemed reliable then the press can be a powerful source of useful information‚ and can save lives. The eruption of Mount St Helens is regarded as one of the top 10 worst disasters of the last 101
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