1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens

considered one of the worst types of natural disasters because they often kill people, injure people, and/or destroy property. One example of a volcano is Mount Saint Helens. “A volcano is an opening in Earth’s crust through which ash, gases, and molten rock from below ground erupt onto Earth’s surface or into the atmosphere” (Kobasa). Volcanic eruptions result from magma (molten rock below the ground). Magma usually forms 30-120 miles beneath Earth’s surface. It rises because it is less…

geographical landscape is Mount St. Helens. The eruption on May 18, 1980 caused a monumental change in its geography, altering it to a point where it was unrecognizable. The current landscape is a combination of both aggradation and degradation caused by the rockslide debris that displaced the water of Spirit Lake, producing gigantic north part of the lake. When the water returned to the lake bed, it brought with it trees and soil in addition to material from the initial eruption, producing a…

Earthquakes and volcanoes go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly or rice and beans. Where there are volcanos there are usually tectonic plates beneath them either pushing against or pulling away from one another. Take for instance the Cascade Mountain Range in Northern California and stretches through Oregon and into Vancouver, British Columbia and sits northeast of the San Andreas Fault line that runs 750 miles through California. This fault creates the tectonic boundary between the…

0B06 12/6/17 Toba, the Deadliest Volcano Eruption Around 74,000 years ago during the Quaternary period, the supervolcano known as, Toba, erupted in Northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Toba is thought to be one of the largest known eruptions the Earth has ever seen. And certainly the largest to erupt during the Quaternary period. Out of the three periods that make up the Cenozoic Era, the Quaternary period is the current and most recent of the three. The eruption of the Toba volcano did not just…

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!” Those were the last words anyone heard from David Johnson. He had been closely monitoring a steaming, trembling snow-capped mountain near Vancouver, Washington. Mount St. Helens had not erupted in over 100 years. But two months earlier, an earthquake had jolted it to life. Homes were evacuated and roads were closed as hundreds of explosive blasts of steam burst from the volcano and earthquakes shook the area. Scientists knew that pressure was building up…

possible, but not likely dangers of this volcano. Yellowstone can be one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world these days. Not for the eruptions in the past thousand years, but for the eruptions in the recent history of the universe. The universe is 14 billon years old and the earth is 4.5 billon years old. That would make the Yellowstone eruptions relativity young compared to the age of the Earth. There is no telling when the volcano could erupt in the future, if it even erupts at all.…

image Can you outrun a supervolcano? New evidence from an ancient eruption suggests the answer is a surprising yes. "I wouldn 't recommend anyone try to outrun a volcano, but there 's a few of us that could," said Greg Valentine, a volcanologist at the University at Buffalo in New York. By analyzing rocks trapped in volcanic ash, Valentine and his colleagues discovered the…

time soon. Experts say that imminent is not necessary. Scientist think that the eruption would cover the united states and Canada in ash 's it would shut down agriculture and cause global cooling for decades. Scientist says that we have at least or more than a million years before the super volcano erupts. Scientist say” If it happens again, and he says most scientists think that it will be predicts such an eruption will obliterate the surroundings with a radius of kilometers,and cover the rest…

Alaska then down through Russia, Japan, and South East Asia all the way to New Zealand. Many of the eruptions have occurred in these shore lines of the Pacific Ocean throughout history. In August of 1833 Indonesia a volcano blew itself into pieces creating the loudest sound recorded into history. In June of 1991 Philippines a volcano blasted 22 miles of debris into the air. In May 1980 Mount St. Helen caused 1 billion dollars of damage. It’s so important for scientist to find the sources that…

To my fellow college colleagues: Creationist and Evolutionist Is there really evidence that proves the world wide flood actually happened that is written about in the book of Genesis? The Bible tells us of the Great Flood, how it covered the whole earth. (Gen 17:7 [NKJV]) “Now the flood was on the earth forty days. The waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it was raised high above the earth.” The Bible also gives many clues to how the flood was able to cover the whole earth by God’s…