TODAY IN HISTORY: 40 years ago, the Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington state erupted, leaving 57 people dead.
Mount St. Helens in Washington state is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range and it is the most likely of the contiguous U.S. volcanoes to erupt in the future. On the morning of May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck, followed by the largest debris avalanche recorded in history. It resulted in the eruption of Mount St. Helens, leaving the surrounding areas devastated. The Toutle River in Mount St. Helen’s Monument, April 22, 2005, 25 years after the eruption.Mount St.
Helens eruption, the flowing hot rocks and gas quickly eroded and melted some of the snow and ice capping the volcano, causing a volcanic mudflow, referred to as lahars, which uprooted countless of trees and destroyed various roads and bridges. A forest flattened by the eruption of Mount St. Helens, June 30, 1980, in Washington.A woman in a merchandising T-shirt with the publication "Mount St. Helens Holocaust, a diary of destruction," 1980.
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