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  2. 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    Mount St. Helens from Monitor Ridge, this image shows the cone of devastation, the huge crater open to the north, the posteruption lava dome inside, and Crater Glacier surrounding the lava dome. The small photo on the left was taken from Spirit Lake before the eruption and the small photo on the right was taken after the eruption from roughly ...

  3. Last moments before Mount St. Helens eruption caught on ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  4. Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    The eruption of Mount St. Helens has been subject to more ecological study than has any other eruption, because research into disturbance commenced immediately after the eruption and because the eruption did not sterilize the immediate area. More than half of the papers on ecological response to volcanic eruption originated from studies of ...

  5. The Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in Human History

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    1980: Mount St. Helens, Washington. Intense and escalating seismic activity in the spring of 1980 left little doubt that Mount St. Helens was going to blow, and on May 18, that’s exactly what ...

  6. Could a WA volcano erupt again in our lifetime? What would ...

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    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.

  7. Harry R. Truman - Wikipedia

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    Harry R. Truman (October 1896 – May 18, 1980) was an American businessman, bootlegger, and prospector.He lived near Mount St. Helens, an active volcano in the state of Washington, and was the owner and caretaker of Mount St. Helens Lodge at Spirit Lake near the base of the mountain.

  8. Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center at Silver Lake, about 30 miles (48 km) west of Mount St. Helens and five miles (8 km) east of Interstate 5 (outside the monument), opened in 1987 by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. The center was formerly operated by the U.S. Forest Service and has been operated by Washington State Parks since October 2007.

  9. A memory of the Mount St. Helens eruption 44 years later - AOL

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    May 17—Guillermo V. Castaneda of Granger sent this poem to the Columbia Basin Herald in commemoration of the eruption of Mount St. Helens, which took place 34 years ago Saturday. At the time of ...