Mount St. Helens

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There is always earthquakes when volcanoes erupt, so, yes.

Mount St. Helens has had over 30 recorded eruptions since its most significant eruption in 1980. The volcano's activity includes both explosive and effusive eruptions, with notable events occurring in 1980, 1981, and several times throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The frequency and nature of these eruptions have been closely monitored by volcanologists.

Although minor steam explosions may have occurred in 1898, 1903, and 1921, Mount St. Helens gave little or no evidence of being a volcanic hazard for more than a century after its eruption in 1857.

The material produced by the eruptions of Mount St. Helens have varied over time, but the eruptions of recent decades, including the 1980 eruption, have involved dacite magma, whish is of intermediate-felsic composition. The famous 1980 eruption produced ash and pumice rather than lava.

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mount saint helens formed a massive buldge because the magma was blocked of frm the top of the volcano so it turned to the side and formed the big bulge the lava still couldn't get out so was forming the bulge to make more pressure on the skin that was blocking it from getting out in the end there was an earth quake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale the north face of the volcano collapsed into a massive rock avalange the bulge was going down with it. nearly 230 square miles was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits.

The nearest homes to Mount St. Helens are now about 15 miles from the volcano though vacation homes are now being planned within 8 miles of the crater. For a map of the area see the link below.

mostly near north Oregon and the coast of Washington.

The last eruptive activity of Mount St Helens was in July of 2008.

When the erruption of Mt. Saint Helens happened people reported seeing ash clouds as far as California going west and east as far as Wisconsin and south to Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. This all factored to the way the wind was blowing which sent clouds of ash and soot blowing for miles and being spotted in different states.

Mount St. Helen lost nearly 2/3 of its size during the catastrophic eruption. It is smaller in size now and mostly barren, some small undergrowth is reemerging but volcanic ash is very suffocating to new growth for many years. Repeated rain, erosion and mixing with soil will turn in into good mulch eventually, but for the most part, areas of St. Helen's resembles a moon-like surface.

Mount St. Helens was an active composite volcano in the Cascade Range of Washington state. Before the 1980 eruption, it had a symmetrical shape with a conical summit and lush forests covering its slopes. It was known as a popular recreational area before the catastrophic eruption.

The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption destroyed about 230 square miles of forest and vegetation in Washington state. It significantly altered the landscape and left behind a barren area that has started to recover over the years.

It erupted May 18, 1980. I remember it very well.. the sky got very dark early in the morning that Sunday.

and sucked me hard

The mapped location of Mt. St. Helens, at the north end of the Dryer Glacier about 2.1 miles southwest of the East Dome, is at

46 degrees 11 minutes north latitude

122 degrees 11 minutes west longitude

Portland, Oregon is 28.4 miles from St Helens, Oregon.

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Local People-

Positive Effects: Volcanic ash is good for farming as it has nutrients for plants to grow so crops grew better than before

Negative: Houses are destroyed, People died, Businesses are destroyed, Pyroclastic flows effected many lives

Government:

Positive: Got money from other countries for damage development

Negative: Jobs are lost so no money is coming as tax, Spend more money on cleaning up, Building lost (e.g Haiti earthquake)

Mount St. Helens, located in southwestern Washington state in the Cascade mountain range, erupted on May 18, 1980. Sixty-one people died as a result of the eruption. This was the first known volcanic eruption in the 48 contiguous United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) to claim a human life. Mount St. Helens is classified as a composite volcano (a steep-sided, often symmetrical cone constructed of alternating layers of lava flows, ash, and other volcanic debris). Composite volcanoes tend to erupt explosively.

On a continental plate. Mount Saint Helens is on a convergent plate boundary. The Juan de Fuca plate is being pushed under the North American Plate.

Countries supported families who had been affected by the volcanoes eruption by supplying them with money, general items, food ad that were essential. However most lives had been rescued as volcanologists predicted the eruption before it happened. 57 lives were taken, 250 homes were demolished and the height of the volcano reduced from being 9,677ft to becoming 8,635ft.

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is part of the Cascade Range. The mountain is well known for its catastrophic eruption in 1980 which dramatically changed its landscape.