It killed people. It closed schools, it knocked out electricity, it made the sky go dark, not to mention the emotional distress. Not a fun time.
yes in fact there were sirens and warnings out when it happened
mt vesuvius killed alot of people it is strato volcano so it's a real big eruption
The magma that collected under Mt. St. Helens was a frothy dacite, containing relatively large amounts of dissolved gases. When suddenly released from pressure, the gas bubbles explosively escape, generating significant energy and pulverizing much of the rock into fine ash.
May 18th 1980 8:32 AM
Titus was the emperor at the time of the Vesuvius eruption.
57 People died in the eruption.
people died
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
They didn't hide.
57 people and 2 million animals
Mt St Helens first erupted on May 18, 1980
It killed animals and stuff. And people. Look at wikipedia.
Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its major 1980 eruption, the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed.
The deadly May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens took the lives of 57 people and leveled hundreds of square miles of forests.
About 2 cubic km of material was erupted. About the size of the Mt St Helens eruption in 1980.
The 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens was a VEI 5.
In 1980 when Mt. Saint Helens erupted it killed fifty seven people (Wikipedia). Resource Wikipedia. (2008). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens Encarta. http://encarta.msn.com/media_461517894/Eruption_of_Mount_Saint_Helens.html