eruption to occur in the lower forty-eight states. When Mount St. Helen’s erupted‚ the effects were seen by many‚ and scientists were fascinated with learning about the volcano. Much research was conducted looking into the economic‚ ecological‚ and personal aspects of the eruption. Mount St. Helens proves to be a memorable landmark to all Americans and still a source of fascination today for a variety of persons. Mount Saint Helens‚ an active stratovolcano‚ is located in southwest Washington
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Mt.Saint Helens By:Kailey Olson 7W Have you ever been through a natural disaster? My mom‚dad and grandma have all experienced one.They all had to find new ways to live their daily lives but with more percussions.The Mt. Saint Helens eruption was hard on my mom because she couldn’t play outside for a while. My mom was eleven‚ when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.It was May 18‚1980 at 8:30 in the morning and my mom was play outside in the parking lot with her friend. She was about to go to Sunday school
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subduction-related volcanoes active along the Cascade chain. Before 1980‚ the last one to erupt was Mt. Lassen in California‚ in 1914. In the mid-1970’s scientists were concerned that Mt. Baker‚ in northern Washington‚ might be the site of the next volcanic eruption‚ based on increased activity on the volcano. However‚ in 1978‚ Dwight Crandell and Don Millineaux of the USGS suggested that Mt. St. Helens was potentially the most likely volcano to erupt in the twentieth century; based their evidence on
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domed volcanoes with gently sloping sides‚ characteristic of the eruption of fluid‚ basaltic lava(citation). Both of these volcano’s had a huge impacts on humans‚ human structures and property‚ and had very high damage costs. The major Mount St. Helens eruption was on May 18‚ 1980‚ in the state of Washington‚ USA. It’s volcanic explositivy index reached 5 on a scale of 0 to 8. The Mount Pinatubo’s eruption was on June 14‚ 1991 in the Cabusilan Mountains on the island of Luzon. It reached a 6
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almost instantly. All of their deaths were caused by the ash and the burning hot air. Far into the future on Mount St. Helens‚ everything within eight miles turned into ruins. When an earthquake triggered the volcano that morning‚ nearly twenty-two hundred
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85 miles of highway and 15 miles of railways were destroyed. What would someone say about this natural disaster who was there? It was a normal day for my grandma‚ but when she turns on the news it became very far from normal. She see’s that Mt. St Helens erupts. After that‚ she looks outside‚ but doesn’t see any ash yet. She then tells my grandpa about this. He was just outside working in his shop and is not surprised about this because of what he had heard before on the radio. He then goes outside
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Vesuvius and St. Helens are volcanoes‚ they both erupted . Nonetheless‚ these volcanoes did damage to land and loss of life. Some people even lived by these volcanos‚ it may awesome to live by a volcano‚ or it may be terrifying. Nonetheless‚ if you were to live by a volcano while it was erupting‚ the event would be terrifying from the tremors of a volcano‚ moreover‚ many years ago St. Helens erupted‚ the tremors were horrific‚ people who lived by this volcano were terrified they probably had to
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Mount Kilauea is the most famous volcano in Hawaii. It resides in the southeast in Mauna Loa. This volcano has one of the biggest craters of all volcanoes‚ consisting of 3‚646 feet deep. It has an 8 mile circumference and is encompassed entirely by an enormous “wall of volcanic rock 200 to 500 ft high” (Mount Kilauea). “Mount Kilauea is a low and flat shield volcano that rises only 1‚247 meters above sea level. Till date‚ the Kilauea volcano is the most active and the most visited volcano in the
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Imagine you’re one of the people that decide to ignore the officials warnings of an eruption on Mount St. Helens. It’s May 18‚ 1980‚ 8:32 a.m. and you hear a rumble and feel the earth move. Behind you‚ you hear a thunderous noise. When you turn around‚ you see a humongous landslide headed your way. Mount St. Helens in Washington State has erupted‚ immediately a cloud of gas‚ rock‚ and hot ash shot up in the air and race down the mountainside at an unimaginable speed. The eruption created a mass of
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How much do the Pompeii and Mount St. Helens eruptions actually have in common? And how are they different? Well you would be surprised by how many similarities the two Volcanic eruptions have. But there are a lot of differences between the two eruptions as well. Both of these historic eruptions have a lot in common. For example‚ both were preceded by tremors and small earthquakes in the days leading up to both of the explosions. Another example is that both are the same type of volcano called a
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