Mount St. Helens: How the Worst Volcanic Eruption in US History Unfolded
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- A look back at the catastrophic May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington-the most devastating volcanic eruption in U.S. history-and the events leading up to it. #Volcano #MountStHelens #Washington
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43 years ago today, Mount St. Helens' violent eruption triggered the largest landslide in recorded history. More on this catastrophic event here: www.foxweather.com/extreme-weather/mount-st-helens-volcanic-eruption-may-1980-43rd-anniversary 🌋
I can think of at least two, who were much larger
I remember that day very well. Myself, my wife, and our 2 children were living in Vancouver, WA at that time. We were driving towards the Orchards area and could clearly see the mountain,
which was about 50 miles away. As the mountain started to erupt, everyone in that area pulled over and got out of their cars. We all heard the DEEP rumbling roar coming from the mountain
and it was the 1st time in my life I ever felt true awe. The sound was so deep and loud that we could feel it inside our chest. I felt as if I was in the presence of Almighty God doing His work
to reshape the Earth, destroying a beautiful area so that a new area would be created. As we watched, a huge cloud of ash rose high into the sky and formed an anvil shape at its top.
Lightning flashed around inside the ash cloud with dozens and dozens of flashes. The areas where the lightning flashed were bright red and gold, contrasting with the black boiling ash
cloud. I hope never to see something like that again, especially since we now live even closer to Mt. St. Helens. It's been quiet for some time but we've recently had some earthquake
activity. It's probably nothing since the quakes are all small and probably due to steam venting. Still, this tribute to that day and those who were lost was well done and appreciated.
Wow! Amazing story!
@@shawnalexander4928 Thanks, Shawn. That was, indeed, a day of days.
I bet the shock wave was immense, I would've been truly scared!!
This was a beautiful tribute.
Those of us west coasters who were alive at the time will never forget.
I remember that day. Thankfully, I was many hundreds of miles further down the west coast. For a short period of time, we could smell the ash, but none fell upon our community. For the longest time, sunsets included so many colors of the rainbow. Perhaps five years after the eruption, I visited the base of the volcano on the side opposite the eruption. Mounds of ash, pyroclastic chunks of rock, and felled trees were everywhere. Amazingly, the Earth had begun to rebuild in the form of small plants, trees, and the renewed presence of small animals.
I was 6 years old when this happened. The family was at "Sand Lake" in Oregon, and I was the first one out of the tent, and told my parents "it snowed". Needles to say, our vacation
got cut short.
RIP David Johnston and Harry Truman.
I just watched a documentary where Truman refused to leave! I can't imagine what he was thinking.
RIP
To the 57 people and thousands of animals who were killed in the eruption of Mount St. Helens
also the millions of insects
@@filthforce Insects are animals.
@@filthforce Insects are animals.
@@filthforce also the trillions of bacteria (maybe more idk lol)
3:47: Start of the eruption
Very cool vintage newscasts.
43 years has passed since the eruption.I was stationed at the Cle Elm Ranger Station when the call came in at8:30a.m. Heard the young man called and died. Never forget the darkness of the day.Could not see six feet in front of you car.We did not hear it up close, they did hear it in Sedro Woolley.I will not forget.
Why couldn't you see? :O
I heard the explosion in Pasco Wash. The ground shook and the darkest day I've ever experienced in my life.
Seems like 'yesterday' to me. I was in Spokane for a family reunion. After three days we were able to get enough air filters to head up north to Canada - as I-90 towards Seattle was a mess. I was very glad to see rain in the mountains!
I really feel like the story of this eruption and all those involved would make an amazing film. Its a story I cant get enough of.
They made a movie and a few documentaries
Was in Salem Oregon at the time of the eruption. The sky full of gray heavy ash. Stayed inside for several days (snuck outside, not very long).
The volcano erupted horizontally, not vertically. The explosive force has been estimated to be equivalent to 24 megatons of TNT. My wife and I visited Mt. St. Helens in the fall of 2018. The scope of destruction is still evident decades later.
As a young man, I clearly remember the eruption. I lived in Calgary, Alberta and we got a light dusting of ash. In the fall, I travelled by rail from Seattle to San Francisco to get work on a ship. I clearly remember transiting the western slopes of the coastal mountains in Washington state, and the streams and rivers were choked with downed trees and debris. Astonishing.
It erupted vertically also.
It erupted vertically, but it needed to make room for the material that was coming up. Therefore the big gap that formed on top and then the powerful explosive eruption that moved away a part of the mountain. Then it could erupt freely vertically high in the air.
And as the big eruption cloud collapsed, it was rushing down as a pyroclastic stream, like in Pompeii and other places. Very hot air with volcanic sand (called "ash", but more like glowing hot sand, very fast, that burns everything and covers everything a few miles out).
The guy eatin a pickle cracks me up every time 😂
It would be interesting to interview him now, if he's still alive.
I lived in Spokane when the mountain blew. So dam much ash. It turned daylight into night as it fell. However, that year was my best garden ever.
I live on the columbia river. St helens oregon. I look this up to see what my dad and grandma had to deal with. I have ash in a pill bottle my grandma gave me before ahe passed. And I'm 32
That was an excellent watch.
I was graduating high school when this was going on.
Makes me smile that the guy in glasses was munching away on a Twinkie while being horribly complacent about the danger he was in.
That's what I thought at first, but if you zoom in, I believe you'll see a pickle.
Imagine not leaving the area when its giving you all the time to move away
Every May 18, we ask "where were you when the mountain blew?" It's a day (and summer) that will be remembered.
I was a geology student at a university on the east coast so obviously not in the area, but still it was of course of interest to us. A volcano right in the US at the time we happened to be in college studying geology it was almost like pornography for geologists. We had an old teletype machine hooked up to the USGS news feed and because it was an ongoing event we had student volunteers watching the news tickers, but the volcano fooled us all by blowing on a Sunday morning, which was the only time there was no one in the office. Nature's going to do its thing on its own time.
I was only 7yrs old when My St Helen blew up. I lived in the city of Yakima WA, Total darkness. My Dad brought us in to the house and turned on the radio..... That was when we felt the rumblings of the volcano then we heard the boom, sounded right outside our house. My Dad was sad because his birthday was May 19th. And his birthday celebration got cancelled. Something I'll never forget.
RIP David Johnston. He helped save lies and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
I was living in Olympia walking to work about 15minutes before it blew.The sky was an apricot color and it blew as I entered the store. 7:08 ❤
I wonder what happened to the lumberman that said he’s not scared that he had a worse chance of a tree falling on him. Was he working the day of the eruption? Hopefully not.
Also I always wondered what he was eating.
I think it was a pickle
looked like a donut to me and i didnt hear a crunch@@rachell4492
I hope he survived. He surely was wrong about his prediction.
Dude eating the pickle is a total goof
It's a piece of donut. And he was not at work that day, survived 💪🏻
@nolongeractive5952 no it was a pickle
Love the information!
I remember walking on Malibu beach a few days after Mt. St. Helens eruption, when suddenly ash fell down on us like rain. It was very eerie seeing that despite a sunny sky.
I remember when i was very young the sky in Alabama was dark blue that summer
I love the map graphics!
I wonder if scientists know exactly where Harry Truman’s house once stood. It would be interesting to see how it looks now
It is buried under mud and Spirit Lake. The landslide changed the shape of the lake. Where his lodge once stood is now part of the lake.
I was only 8 and I remember this well.
3:19 If this dufuss were still alive, he'd definitely be a FOX "news" viewer.
Excelent quality. Thank you.
Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"
I live in Michigan, it wasn't a very sunny summer from what i remember when my. St. Helens erupted, ash floating across the country.
David Johnston knew. R.I.P.
I am from Ellensburg, Wa. I was supposed to be born that day! My dad went outside and collected some of the ash off their car. He told my mom that the sky was falling lol My mom ended up carrying me until June 18th. So she carried me for 10 months instead of 9. Pretty crazy
I hiked up it, and around. Amazing place.
Thank you, this explains a lot. I'd like to know where all that water came from that knocked out the bridges. Also, there wasn't any lava ?
The mountain had snow and glaciers that melted from eruption.
The lava isn't like what you see in Hawaii, but it was there.
Different types of volcanoes erupt differently.
@@MacPNW Ah, yes.
“Worst”? Largest recorded, but “worst” is a mis-attribution of a geological occurrence. But Fox…
worst in US history.... I dont like fox but hey, at least read the title..
@@stfjinkiojdyes. They clearly stipulated "US history"
😅 How they made us sound like a bunch of hicks is unreal. We follow science in WA state then and just like we did with COVID. It’s why the first hit COVID state lived and how we survived a volcano. We KNEW a volcano was about to explode. We were prepared. Still we lost 57 whom we mourn. Some ignored the warnings. Some were unluckily downstream and didn’t listen.. some just got screwed. It’s a frigging damn volcano I the land of free will! I know where I was the day the mountain blew.
Where were you
Friendly reminder that this event was immortalized by Disney in Fantasia 2000 by Stravinsky's _Firebird._
There was no lava flow with St Helen's eruption.
Anyone else here after reading about 400 earthquakes being detected under St Helen's in the last 3 months?
Wow! I was 7 years old living in Atlanta, Georgia. I wonder why they didn't make Truman evaluate!
Lmao more danger of a tree than a mountain exploding😂 yeah well you didn’t respawn after it finally exploded soooo
Look like he was doing some damage on what looked like a big ol pickle he was uh smackin on.
Actually that old codger was out sick from work that day. He got lucky, survived and lived another 12 years
@@nolongeractive5952 It was a Sunday morning so a lot less people at work in the area than there otherwise would have been.
Now imagine Mount Rainier erupting
I sure hope it doesn't as it would probably get me in Puyallup, WA!
@@karenharris722 Depend on how hard it want to erupt, if it a small eruption you can probably run, if it anything like 80 Saint Helen, your a goner
@@stevenplayzzz172 Yeah, I wouldn't want to be in the way of either one actually! Being the 'recipient' of the ash in Spokane was enough for me!
This is going to happen in Mexico in any day now
1:42 Residents evacuate as massive bulge on Mount St. Helens raises fears of mudslides and avalanches. Governor warns of increased danger! 🚨
Like how all those people thought "It couldn't happen to them...Nothing to worry about" before the eruption.
Never underestimate the power of Yahweh
😅😅😅 no gods involved. Purely plate tectonics
People say things like that but we know how perfectly the stars sun moona ND earth are positioned and even the mystery as to how it turns everyday and out bodies listen to the command to breathe when we sleep. God is most certainly. REAL.
@@alexiarodriguez5974everything you just listed has a scientific basis for why and how it happens. But go ahead and, stay ignorant or whatever.
@@alexiarodriguez5974 you're putting your ignorance on display Alexia 🤡
Is it passable to make cement out of volcano ash or some sort of material.?
Keep eating your pickles.....
A great climb.
If you are ever in the area visit the observatory it's well worth your time!
Nam myoho rengekyo 🙏 pray 🌍 peace
I was living in Gautier , MS. At this time . 17 y.o.
3:08 Martin Short used to be a newscaster?
Wow!
I was 8 years old.. I have no memory of this 😑
Imagine the whole world covered with ash from that eruption!😮
That is the power of steam
I was probably 6 months old when this happened
RIP DJ, the other 56 and to the animals.
If Nature should decide, she’s done with mankind, she can do it in an instant.
This was the REAL Dantes peak aka Mt Saint Helens I remember looking at the mountains in my home state of Colorado seeing the ash coming over the tops of the peaks and causing the light to dim of the setting sun.
44 yrs ago today !
Shes continued to have small eruptions periodically and still is.
Muy bueno el vídeo, se aprecia con claridad lo que ocurrió en esta erupción, del volcán santa helena, al taparse la chimenea se produce la protuberancia, este crece demasiado y cuando se rompe por su inmensa presión, es cuando se escapa toda la fuerza acumulada y genera los piroplastos que destruyen gran parte de la ladera, luego se encuentra con el lago y al venir muy caliente y con fuerza, este género la posterior avalancha, que hace su destrucción en su recorrido.
La naturaleza sin obstáculos no genera peligro y esta situación es un evento de origen natural.
En el mundo han avidido muchas fallas humanas que destruyen muchos pueblos y ciudades, todo por la negligencia y omisión de los gobiernos, como pasó con la gran ciudad de armero Tolima Colombia, el 13 de noviembre de 1985.
We found bits of ash in our swimming pool in Central Florida.
Forces of Nature
I’m sorry but the title is so misleading. This is nowhere near the “worst” volcanic eruption of the United States. Mt Mazama, which is crater lake now. And don’t forget Yellowstone.
Not misleading at all, its the worst in "recorded" US history. Those others havent erupted in thousands of years.
@@BobetoSlim who said it wasn’t recorded? Are you limiting your accounts to a certain language, or perspective? Have you read any account from the ancient nations of the Americas?
The glyphs tell, in clueing the date and time in its perfection, while Europe was still 10 days off.
Your going to have to study more. 📚👨🏽🏫🌋
Name a worse volcanic eruption, in the UNITED STATES, since 1776...
The title is just fine, your reading comprehension, is not...
P.S. Accounts of ancient AMERICAN cultures???
Because North America, was referred to as the Americas, back when Yellowstone last erupted???
Try way harder to be less dense...
@@codymoe4986 no it was hue hue Tlapalan
It's happening again. I heard it was smoking today.
It’s funny watching this and hearing them say how this and that have happened…. BOOM
where is randy marsh?!?!?!?!?!
If i had a penny for everytime I heard "scientists say" or "scientists believe" I would be unbelievably wealthy. A lot of the time it's an educated guess but you never know.
R.I.P
Barry Manliow's twin - 3:09
I remember
I left Pasco Washington on May 21st 1980 never to return again.. today is Jan 21st 2024.😢
Why didn't you go back?
Did the pickle eater die?
Click bait. It was not the worst volcanic eruption in US history.
Recorded history, yes
The worst ever recorded on video, film or photographs. In today's world if there isn't a picture or video of it, it never happened.
Name a worse eruption, in the history of the 250 year old nation, we call the United States...
Mother Nature don't play games…. Ignorance played a big part in 50+ people dying… RIP to those who died
Krakatoa says, "..."
Too old😮 of news what is going on this morning with Mt…….
ufo 4:26
The earth farted.
Seems like a lot of deaths could have been avoided
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And we concerned about Global warming 😕
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What’s sad is the population of Sasquatches that died in this eruption.
Dude.......grow up
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Worst in History so far. Correct yourself
Looking back at these vids just make me realize black people did have roles in major media like news and television shows. Makes you wonder .
Why is it "the worst" ?? It was a great event, bigger than anyone would have imagined. And out of the ashes comes forth life,. Many list their lives on that day in may, but if I was Harry or any of the others, I would've made the same choice. And what a wonderfull way to die, doing what love and living life, ...