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The short film Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 (1981) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. The short film This place in time: The Mount St. Helens story (1984) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive. Aerial pictures of the July 22nd, 1980 secondary eruption
"The 1980 Mount St. Helens Eruption". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Mount St Helens (audio slideshow). Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Volcanologist Sarah Henton discusses the Cascade Mountains and explains the geology and impact of the 1980 Mount St Helens eruption. (duration 6:29 min) Mount St. Helens (3D model).
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 ...
2021 Semeru eruption: 64 Mount Merapi: 2 Indonesia: 1994 [35] 63 Mount Ontake: 3 Japan: 2014 2014 Mount Ontake eruption: 58 Sakurajima: 4 Japan: 1914 [36] 57 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 ...
The eruption finally occurred on May 18, when a magnitude 5.1 earthquake caused the north flank of Mount St. Helens to collapse, causing one of the largest landslides in U.S. history.
On the morning of May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg hiked 7 miles from the summit of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades mountain range. As the lens of his camera viewed the snowy cap of ...
In the weeks leading up to the eruption of Mount St. Helens, Landsburg visited the area many times in order to photographically document the changing volcano. [6] On the morning of May 18, he was within a few miles of the summit. When the mountain erupted, Landsburg retreated to his car while taking photos of the rapidly approaching ash cloud. [7]
Hundreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland, causing over $1 billion in damage (equivalent to $3.4 billion in 2023), thousands of animals were k**led, and Mount St. Helens was left with a ...