Ah Well
18-05-2010, 06:40 PM
Seeing as Volcanoes are very much on topic these days, it's 30 years to the day since Mount St. Helens erupted in the US.
It erupted on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT and was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railways, and 185 miles of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft to 8,365 ft and replaced it with a 1 mile wide horseshoe-shaped crater.
What occurred seems to make the activity from our friend in Iceland look like a picnic to date
Mount St. Helens before the eruption ....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sthelens1.jpg/300px-Sthelens1.jpg
And as it looked some time after ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg/280px-MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg
Some amazing live footage was captured by one appropriately named Dave Crockett who lived to tell the tale ... one hell of a story for sure
YouTube- Dave Crockett: Escaping from the 1980 St. Helens Eruption
It erupted on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 am PDT and was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles of railways, and 185 miles of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft to 8,365 ft and replaced it with a 1 mile wide horseshoe-shaped crater.
What occurred seems to make the activity from our friend in Iceland look like a picnic to date
Mount St. Helens before the eruption ....
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Sthelens1.jpg/300px-Sthelens1.jpg
And as it looked some time after ...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg/280px-MSH82_st_helens_plume_from_harrys_ridge_05-19-82.jpg
Some amazing live footage was captured by one appropriately named Dave Crockett who lived to tell the tale ... one hell of a story for sure
YouTube- Dave Crockett: Escaping from the 1980 St. Helens Eruption