Mount St. Helens Essay

Mount St. Helens is a volcanic stratovolcano still actively located in the Cascade Range in Western North America in the state of Washington. It was formed by a subduction plate boundary also located on the Juan de Fuca plate. The Cascade range is one of the most famous mountain ranges, and has one of the most active volcanos located in Western North America. Other areas or famous landmarks surrounding Mount St. Helens are the South Fork Toutle River, North Fork Toutle River, Castel lake, Coldwater lake, St. Helens Lake, Spirit Lake, Pumice Plain, and Upper Muddy River. The longitude of Mount St. Helens is -122.19225 and latitude is 46.19761, and it also has an astounding elevation of 8,366 feet. Mount St. Helens had been dormant for 123 years but then on March twentieth of 1980 a series of small earthquakes were detected near the region. Then suddenly more and more geologist became interested in the mountain. During the following few days, the magnitude and frequency of the shockwaves from the earthquakes …show more content…
Helens eruption(s) it was one of the most destructive in the volcanic history of the United States. More than fifty seven people are known to have died in a result of the volcanic eruption. More than one hundred and eighty five miles of roads and fifteen miles of railways were critically hurt or damaged. The volcano used to be a symmetrical cone shape 9,600 feet above sea level until the 1980 eruption. The 1980 eruption removed an upper 1,300 feet of Mount St. Helens summit. It left a horseshoe shaped crater as result, with destroyed and scorched barren wasteland around it. As of today the land is still healing, and recovering its natural beauty. Even though the landscape is now permanently altered. Before the 1980 eruption there was minor eruptions in 1898, 1903, and 1982, but for most of the 20th century it was a beautiful mountain and woodland. And of course that was destroyed in the 1980