Essay On Mt St Helens

In the early 1900s St.Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique was famous tourist destination.”It was known as the Paris of the west Indies”, and home to more than 20,000 people,Mount Pelee sits about 4 miles from St Pierre.On May 8, 1902 the volcano erupted. Sending a volcanic surge directly at St.pierre's at a rate of 420 miles per hour.Killing 30,000 people in its wake.National National Geographic News”Deadliest volcano of the 20th century, 100 years later””molly pell and channo wOodage for National Geographic News, 5-8-2”

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 of the Cascade mountain range that spans from California to Canada. It is a composite volcano, which has steep sides that are formed by alternating layers of lava

Mount St Helens erupted on the 18th May 1980 at 9am and is an active strata volcano Washington State USA, a MEDC. Where as on 18th July 1995, during the daytime, Montserrat, a LEDC during the day, Montserrat's Soufrière Hills composite volcano of a height 1050m, meaning sulphur hills, dormant for centuries, erupted and produced a phreatic eruption. The volcano is a strata volcano also. Mount St. Helens is a composite volcano which lies near to a destructive plate boundary where the small Juan de Fuca Plate is being subducted underneath the North American Plate where as the eruption

May 18, 1980 was a day that dawned sunny and beautiful. Mt. St. Helens stood out beautifully against the blue sky. The mountain had been rumbling quite a bit the past few days, and geologists were watching it carefully and monitoring vibrations. There had been a series of earthquakes from around March 12, up until present day. Over 170 earthquakes hit that were higher that 2.5 on the Richter scale in that short period of time. The earth shook with an earthquake that hit 5.0 on the Richter scale, at around 8:32 in the morning. That did it. Mount St. Helens blew apart with the force of over 500 times more powerful than the atomic bomb. The lateral blast traveled at over 300 miles an hour, and destroyed 230 square miles of forest in just 3 minutes.

Imagine a single event that can kill 57 people and 7000 deer and elk. Snap trees like a toothpick, and turn the sky grey for 15 days. Now, stop imagining, Mount St. Helens, in the Cascade Range of southwestern Washington State, erupted. On May 18th,1980. According to (Campbell 371), “At least $1 billion in economic damage was reported”. The eruption of Mount St. Helens took many lives, and devastated America. Mount St. Helens destroyed more than 230 square miles of ancient forest.

Mount St. Helens Location: Washington, United States Latitude: 46.20 N Longitude: 122.18 W height: 2,549 meters or 8,364 feet - 9,677 feet before May 18, 1980 Type: Stratovolcano Number of eruptions in past 200 years: 2-3 Latest Eruptions: Between 1660-1700, around 1800-1802, 1831, 1835, 1842-1844, 1847-1854, 1857, 1980-? Present thermal activity: strong steaming Nickname: Mount Fuji of the West Remarks: continuous intermittent activity since 1980 with occasional eruptions of steam and ash; occasional pyroclastic flows; intermittent dome forming. MSH is considered a young volcano that developed over the last 40,000 years and is one of the most active volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Geologists predicted that the

Mt. St. Helens was a 5.1 magnitude earthquake in 1980 and was one of the biggest earthquakes. While the documentary “Mt. At. Helens: Back from the Dead” and the poem “Loo-wit” both have powerful descriptions of the eruption, the writers have different purposes. First, “Mt. St. Helens: Back from the Dead, a documentary, was made to inform readers about the eruption in 1980. The author uses numerical data to show readers accurate and specific information.

It was May 18th, 1980. The eruption of Mount St. Helens occurred in Washington,United States. The exact time it had happened is at 8:32:17. The eruption happened 96 miles out South of Seattle, Washington and 50 miles northeast of Portland,Oregon. Many people died during this time. About 50 people had died. 250 homes were destroyed. Along with 47 bridges, 15 miles of railways, 185 miles of highway was also destroyed. Many tiny earthquakes had happened a couple days before the eruption had happened.

It goes on to explain some of the Europeans to first record the sighting of the mountain which happened May nineteenth seventeen ninety-two during the surveying of the northern Pacific Ocean. It was named by Vancouver for a British diplomat, "1st Baron St. Helens," on October twentieth seventeen ninety-two, but before this local Indians had already named it louwala-clough or smoky mountain. In eighteen twenty-nine Hall J. Kelley led a campaign and planned to rename this mountain and all others after one of the United States president, he had tried to rename Mt. St. Helen to Mount Washington. As horrible as the explosion in May og nineteen eighty claimed lives the paper says if the explosion had waited just one day later on Monday rather Sunday when all the people were at work such as loggers they believe the death poll would have been much more higher. A second eruption was noted to had occurred on may twenty-fifth, noone was thankfully hurt and a rather popular film was then created named The Eruption of Mount St. Helen. After all that occurred with the volcano and all it put everyone through president Ronald Reagan in nineteen eighty-two established the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which still to this day remains a famous natural laboratory for the study of earth processes,nature, and catastrophes. The volcano and the area surrounding still have a long way to go before it recovers and has all the things it had

Mt. St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980 and it is said to be the most disastrous volcanic eruption in United States history. There had been months of build up beneath the surface along with a massive bulge growth on the side of the mountain. It began when an earthquake struck beneath the north face of Mt. St. Helens, which set off the biggest landslide to ever happen in the US. Seconds later there was an explosion of the north side of the volcano generating a huge cloud followed by lightning. The large landslide was followed by several lahars (mud flow) and pyroclastic flows (hot gas and volcanic matter).

Mount Tambora is known as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in history. It is recognized to have one of the most hazardous eruptions, the 1816 eruption, with the death toll of 72,000 and more people.

By exploring the plate tectonic setting of the volcano from the website of Mozier and Graham, we can aware that it is a subduction of the North America Plate and Juan de Fuca Plate (Mozier., Graham). In addition, the stratovolcano has characteristics of high viscosity, volatile and large volume. So Mount Rainier will have a relative explosive eruption. According to the research which made by USGS, we can clearly know that there are two eruption types which are lava-producing and explosive debris-producing are alternatively taking place (National Park Service). Due to the feature of activeness, it will make Mount Rainier dangerous. Moreover, the last recent eruption of Mount Rainier happened in 1894 (basicplanet).

Mount. St. Helen’s Eruption There been many volcanoes that have killed more people than Mount. St. Helen’s, but this is the deadliest in the U.S. this volcanic eruption caused mass destruction. May 18,1980 was a tragic day, but in the end almost everything was back to normal in Skamania county, Washington. As it ended it was going to change everything.

How long does a bond stay between two people? How about when the two were stranded on an island naked and afraid? In the Goats we encounter an unusual relationship which is made over time between two kids who went through with similar experiences. Many wonder if the bond will end shortly after their journey. On the other hand people believe their bond will stay strong after their journey, which is believed that can be done. Since they have been through the same hardships together, they had the opportunity to leave each other which they didn´t, and a bond that strong doesn't end that easily. Howie and Laura will remain close friends for many years, the terrifying experience they went through is evidence of this.

There are many differences between the volcanoes for example the explosivity of the two volcanoes most recent eruptions are completely different Kilauea is almost constantly flowing and has virtually no explosions at all it also has low viscosity lava flows running from it constantly where as MT st Helens is completely different in MT st Helens most devastating eruption in 1980