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The ash cloud produced by the eruption, as seen from the village of Toledo, Washington, 35 mi (56 km) to the northwest of Mount St. Helens: The cloud was roughly 40 mi (64 km) wide and 15 mi (24 km; 79,000 ft) high. Ash cloud from Mt. St. Helens as captured by the GOES 3 weather satellite at 15:45 UTC.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:53, 7 December 2007: 884 × 569 (104 KB): Murraybuckley {{Information |Description=svg map of the 1980 mount st helens ash fallout, info from usgs map |Source=self-made |Date=6 dec 2007 |Author= Murraybuckley |Permission= all rights released |other_versions= png version [[Image:1980_St._
Mount Hood, the nearest major volcanic peak in Oregon, is 60 miles (100 km) southeast of Mount St. Helens. Mount St. Helens is geologically young compared with the other major Cascade volcanoes. It formed only within the past 40,000 years, and the summit cone present before its 1980 eruption began rising about 2,200 years ago. [ 11 ]
Mount St. Helens, once the fifth-tallest peak in Washington State, lost about 1,300 feet from its height of 9,677, according to the USGS. The highest part of the crater rim on the southwestern ...
Mount St. Helens' eruptive activity continued over the following days, with steam releases occurring on October 4 at 9:47 a.m., 2:12 p.m., and at 5:40 p.m.; then again on the morning of October 5 at around 9:03 a.m., with an ash plume that dusted Randle, Morton, and Packwood, Washington, towns on or near U.S. Route 12 about 30 miles (48 km ...
Mount St. Helens: 5 United States: 1980 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens: 56 Mount Etna: 2 Italy: 1843 [6] 56 La Soufrière: 4 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 1812 [37] 50 Mount Usu: 4 Japan: 1822 [38] 43 Mount Unzen: 1 Japan: 1991 [39] 40 Dieng Volcanic Complex: 2 Indonesia: 1928 [30] 39 Taal: 4 Philippines: 2020 2020–2022 Taal Volcano ...
HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction of ecosystems around Mount St. Helens in 1980 believe a particular species of ...
The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center at Silver Lake, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Mount St. Helens and five miles (8 km) east of Interstate 5 (outside the monument), opened in 1987 by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. The center was formerly operated by the U.S. Forest Service and has been operated by Washington State Parks since October 2007.