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About Robert Landsberg, a photographer who upon realisation that he is going to die in the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event.
Robert Landsburg, while filming Mount St. Helens volcano eruption in 1980 realized he could not survive it, so he rewound the film back into its case, put his camera in his backpack, and then lay himself on top of the backpack to protect the film for future researchers.
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When Mount Pelée erupted in 1902, the blast killed all but one of St. Pierre's thirty thousand citizens. He only survived because he was underground, having been thrown into a dungeon for starting a bar fight.
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An American photographer who knew he couldn't escape the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption due to being too close to the summit, photographed it & used his body to shield the photographs from damage. His body was discovered several days later, and those pictures proved groundbreaking for geology.
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Mount St. Helens continued to erupt several times in 1980, and although not as explosive as the first, these eruptions sent ash flying to communities in the region.
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The lateral blast that followed the landslide scorched 230 square miles of forest as it blasted at a speed of more than 300 miles per hour down the mountain.
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Volcanic ash rose to more than 80,000 feet into the air within 15 minutes of the landslide.
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A glacier formed in the crater named Crater Glacier.
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In 1967 Canadian Club launched their "Hide A Case" ad campaign. Cases of CC were hidden in exotic locations such as Mount Kilimanjaro, Angel Falls, Mount St. Helens, and the Swiss Alps. A small number of cases, such as one hidden above the Arctic Circle have never been found
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A 4.2 magnitude earthquake was recorded on March 20th, beginning a watch for further activity 24 hours a day.
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Tuff rocks may be found in the Northwest of the United States, much of Washington and Oregon as a result of the Mount St. Helens explosion. Other areas include New Zealand, Easter Island, Greece, and Peru.
America's Youngest & Fastest Growing Glacier is in the hollowed-out crater of Mount St. Helen's - source
[t]he 1980 [volcanic] eruption of Mount St. Helens wiped out a small resident population of about 15 mountain goats [Oreamnos americanus], but in the years since the eruption, mountain goats have been moving back on their own accord." They "have been spotted inside the crater with regularity." - source
From 2004 until 2008 Mount St. Helens erupted continuously.
Before the eruption of Mount St. Helens, longtime area resident Harry R. Truman stated, "You couldn't pull me out with a mule team. That mountain's part of Truman and Truman's part of that mountain." Truman's lodge would be covered in 150 feet of volcanic debris by the eruption. - source
From Mount Rainier's summit one can see Mount Hood, Glacier Peak, Mount Baker, Mount Adams, and Mount St. Helens.
Although the beautiful landscape was destroyed, the lava has left behind a rich and diverse landscape where plants and animals are thriving.
St. Elias Mountains is located in Kluane National Park. This mountain range is the most massive in Canada. It contains the highest mountain in the country (Mount Logan), which is the second tallest peak in North America.
The Toba eruption 75,000 years ago plunged Earth into a 6 to 10 year volcanic winter reducing the world's human population to 10,000 or a mere 1,000 breeding pairs. Studies suggest the eruption was an estimated 5,000 times more powerful than Mount St. Helens's 1980 blast.
The eruption began as a landslide. The summit of Mount St. Helens was reduced by 1300 feet.
The ash cloud from the eruption took only 3 days to cross to the United States" east coast. It took 15 days from the eruption for the ash cloud to encircle the earth.