[Geology2] Mount Saint Helens Videos from USGS

Mount Saint Helens Videos from USGS

Recounting a 30-year history of eruptions and monitoring

Videos released in May, 2010 by the United States Geological Survey.

Mount St. Helens Background

Mount St. Helens is a stratovolcano located in southern Washington, in the western part of the Cascade Mountain Range. It is about 100 miles south of Seattle, Washington and 50 miles northeast of Portland, Oregon. It is an eruptive volcanic cone built up of interlayered ash, pumice, lava flows, volcanic domes and other deposits. It is a young volcano. The first eruptions occurred about 40,000 years ago and it grew in a series of eruptive stages.

Modern Eruptions

The most recent eruption series at Mount St. Helens began on May 18, 1980 at 8:32 AM. This eruption was catastrophic. To date it has been the deadliest and most costly volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed and hundreds of square miles of landscape was covered by blast debris, ash, lahars and pyroclastic flows.

The Opportunity for Monitoring

Numerous other eruptions followed and these eruptions were used by researchers to learn more about monitoring volcanies, test equipment and refine monitoring techniques. In the videos at right, United States Geological Survey researchers explain how they learned from the eruptions and what their new information means for future volcanic monitoring efforts.

Videos can be seen at source; click here




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