Mount St. Helens Erupting

[AALIYAHFOREVER22YOUN]

the best video that i ever seen, looks really cool.

[TmanSSP]

@Lexi there was like one man who died, he lived op on the mountain and they warned him, but he didn't move so he died... Other people died because of the ash.

[lexi3227]

OMG HOW SAD FOR THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE

[xForeverTeamEdwardx]

omg ... o.o my mom said it was a horrible eruption :'S i wasn't alive yet x3 i can see the mt. all the time from here x3

[heyRino]

finally a real fuckin video

[voidmoon65]

i also heard that in july 1980 it had a major eruption causing the lava dome

[jwboll]

lucky you didn't fly through the ash. You would have starred in an "Air Crash Investigation, Mayday" episode!

[masonberg]

that is amazing to see talk about lucky

[kissfan222]

it didnt even erupt dumbass

[msteven515]

Dull

[watermelonorange]

lol. i would call a flight attendant over. 

[pillowsinmypants]

may 18th is my birthday

[courtney1805]

@pillowsinmypants

Hey thats my birthday too!!

=)

[cpawesomeness99]

my grandma WITNESSED the erpution. she saw it with her OWN eyes. 0.0

[danolson68]

@Crucades

Go fuck yourself and rot in hell for saying that to cpawesomeness99. You're a fucking douche, you know that?

[Crucades]

@danolson68 i swear to god, i mean id understand your hatred if it wasnt even just god trying to punish americans for being fat cunts, but their woman are so needy and fat that they cause volcanic eruptions man!!!

[wowman2698]

may 18

[voidmoon65]

What day is it,March 27 or May 18 1980

[kirstylaura17]

@voidmoon65 -May The 18th Of May 1980

[ccmm53095]

March 27th is the date of the 1964 Good Friday Earthquake (M9.2), which caused extensize damage to the Alaskan coastlines, near where I currently reside.

[youlldietrying]

Go to Helen

[ethereal88888]

today, may 21 is St Helens day in Greece! It errupted around sound time. St Helen was the Queen of Constandinoupoli, Greece. SHe found the cross of Jesus and had a son named Konstandinos, who became King and Christianity was spread once again. He built beautiful churches. Unfortunately, the Turks now occupy due to war :( Give back to Greece I say.

[stephaniejoellablack]

what did helen do wrong?

[BuddhaWannabe]

i live right by here and look at this mountain everday and was here for the eruption.. let me tell you this.. what a show

[Starangelica]

Yeah, You might like the tour of that area

[Starangelica]

Mount St. Helens is the name of this Mountain and May 18Th 1980 about 57 people died, and Since then no one has.....Mount St. Helens went up 15 miles into the air and 250 houses were lost around the toutle river on the back left side and Harry Trumand lodge Is now under 15 stories high of mud and Dirt and Some water.

[mcpots1st]

The mt st helens tour might be the coolest thing I've ever seen.

[mainjan08]

who's helen

[JEclips12]

the volcano

[stephaniejoellablack]

dame helen mirren

[wildefd]

you dont say ellienanx0

[popydude]

i would call the death of a few hundred pepople fun

[greenguy10000]

it looks like smoke. that doesnt look like an eruption. could someone explain?

[myselftheother]

It's not an eruption that involves lava blasting out....this is more an ash and gas eruption which on the kind of scale that you see is actually quite massive, albeit not as large as the 1980 eruption. Ash looks like smoke, but it's literally tiny particles of rock and silicone, carbon and other elements....volcanic glass.

[greenguy10000]

whoah thanks. hey, I'm looking for a good video with lava coming out too of mount saint helens or helen (idk which it is) for a project. could ya let me know if you find one? you seem pretty taught on volcanoes

[mwbintacoma]

this is not the 1980 eruption,

i was in parkland wash. when the 1980 eruption took place... we had some of the ash. it was completely dark at 3pm... it is still the most costliest eruption to date, costing over a billion dollars...it also my uncles birthday... nice birthday to remember

[wbgrandson]

i want my minute back that was fuckin shit

[ellienanx0]

that is soooooooooo cool but i wouldnt like to live close to the volocano

hehe

[wowyoucantype]

No its not fake. And Its not from 1980 obviously cause then they didnt have such clear camcorders , cause most people didn't own one then. And I think this was a plane.. With passengers, this was when the Volcano was on a "watch " about 2 years ago but never erupted like before.

[sk8terfreak21]

yes it did happen in 1980 fact

[AbBiE13579]

Is this the 2006 one or the 1980 one few weeks before it erupted??

[da40flyer]

The farther away you are from something like smoke/ash, the less it appears to be moving. Taken from a jet that's a cruise altitude going 500plus mph, you wouldn't see much in the way of smoke in motion.

[AbBiE13579]

Well if you look you can see the plane's wing in the top right corner at the beginning. I don't see how its fake when he is obviously in a plane anyway.

[golem98626]

yeah this isnt the big eruption the big one was in 1980.

[PolarisUSMC]

It looks more like it's venting rather than erupting. I would assume there would be more ash.

[prankca11]

that must be terrifying to be in that copter

[Wiimister861]

they show it erupting in the movie 10.5 appyolopics

[crossingl3lades]

mine does too from the 1980 eruption i was there but didn't get any ash if u wanna know where i was i was near the mountain in a house at spirit lake.

[rodneyjohnwoods]

you silly fucker

[enjoisk8r565]

the volcano is not erupting! my grandfather lives near it and he said that ever since the last actual eruption in 04 the volcano lets steam out of the top at a regular basis. if it were to actually erupt you would be seeing some crazy shit, not just steam.

[Hermione8282]

I think volcanos are horrific! I'd hate to be there when one erupted! I's be so scary :-<

[robertiskool23]

no shit dumbass

[zaxoimissyou]

lol hahah

[chich311]

yea i climbed it when i was 8

[akonandnelly56]

AWSOME!!!

My teacher has ash from when this happend!! awsomeness!! This is cool how you got it live!!

hehe,......... :D

[robertiskool23]

what was your teachers name

cuz mines does too

[SoranoKite]

lol is the person took the video inside the plane?

[starsoffyre]

you're so lucky to be flying over Mount St. Helens while it is erupting

[Currie01]

Arguably unlucky. Volcanic ash can fuck up a plane's system.

[wolframagnum]

whoa... another volcano erupthing... hmmm i was wondering what if all the volcanoes here in the world will erupt including the inactive volcano.. im just thinking and i hope it will not gonna happened

[PilotOfNorway91]

If you heard the beginning, the pilot said that they we're coming in 15 minutes late because they needed to fly around the ash cloud, but you're right. x/

[Muzic1]

About five Minutes after you took that Picture you were probably flying over my house heading for Portland I bet..

[TornadoesNMusic]

Are you stupid? Yellowstone WILL go off. It's more the WHEN.. we are worried about.

[Neur0ticism]

Yeah, my Mom was up in the air when it blew. She was near Mt. Baker I think or maybe Mt. Raineer, she said she saw it. She's a flight attendent. *shrug* I agree somewhat, Wolfboy93, see, Mt. Raineer is apparently the same type of Mountain Pompei was = We're fucked. :D

[billyrohnsenreturns]

you mean mount vesuvius.....

[nerhal4]

dont really think seattle will be gone but it would be affected.

[windrivercountrykid]

I live only 150 miles away from Jellystone---supose I'm toast?

[jon24gies]

Yes, Yellowstone is volcanically active still, and there is a whole sea of magma and hot gas boiling below its surface peacefully. If Yellowstone were ever awakened from its hibernation, every living thing on the planet would be affected, the USA would be the most dramatic, crops would die, livestock would suffocate from ash. Civilization 300 miles around Yellowstone would be wiped out completely 5 minutes after the eruption. 680,000 years since the last eruption, we are overdue.

[kingpin72493]

I know. i think were about 80000 years overdue. I Think it was every 600000 years it blows its top.

[bigstickhockey9]

we're at about 650,000 yrs

its is set to go off anytime b/w now and another 150,000 yrs

the scales is 6-800,000

[bigstickhockey9]

we're not overdue yet i did a lot of studies on this volcano in my geology classes.a scientist was doing a study and camped there. his boat was anchored in the water.when he went back a few yrs later and looked at his map he was like 200 yards removed from his old campsite which was now covered by the lake.they didnt know it was a volcano until they did a fly over and saw that it was impressed into the gound unlike the usual mountain forms we see, but when it erupts like you said....we're doomed

[clwilu94]

If Ranier erupts,Seattle is gone

[clwilu94]

Mount Ranier is Volcanic.The one in Yellowstone will destroy the entire West if it erupts.

[YogaNate79]

Mount St. Helen's erupted in 1980.

Does anyone know if Mount Ranier or Mount Hood are volcanic?

[KMK39]

Both are with Mount Rainier as the highest and third most voluminous volcano of the Cascade Range

[BhamsterWA]

Yes, Mount Ranier and Mount Hood are volcanic mountains. Ranier is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the Cascade Range. Makes life interesting when you live in the shadow of a volcano. I live in near Mount Baker north of Mount Rainer in WA and sometimes Mt. Baker steams!

[Harris6801]

Rainier, Hood, St. Helens, Shasta, etc., are all volcanic cones in the Cascade Arc, which stretches north from Lassen Peak in no. Calif. into British Columbia. See "Fire Mountains of the West: The Cascade and Mono Lake Volcanoes," 3rd. ed. (2005) by Steve Harris.

[YogaNate79]

Wouldn't Mount Whitney in Northern California be considered a danger too?

[Harris6801]

Nope. Whitney, unlike the Cascade peaks from Lassen to Garibaldi & Meager in B.C. (all volcanic cones), is a granite uplift in the Sierra. Interestingly, although Mt. Whitney is publicized as the highest peak in the 48 adjacent States, until about 5600 years ago Mount Rainier was significantly higher than Whitney (by 500 to 1500 feet). About 3600 BC, an eruption triggered a summit collapse, causing the gigantic Osceola Mudflow that buried a large section of the Puget lowland. --Steve H.

[YogaNate79]

thanks for the info. I went to college in Flagstaff, Arizona. It's one of the most beautiful places on earth which sits at the base of the San Francisco Peaks. Mount Humphries at 13,500 feet, is the highest point in the state of Arizona, and to my knowledge, it is a dormant volcano that has little seismic activity. But lots of geologists and volcanologists have claimed in recent years that there have been a lot of falling rocks from the mountain due to plate shifts. I've hiked and climbed it.

[gunitsta]

its not erupting its steaming

[thepoliticalcenter]

Mount St. Helens has been erupting since 2004 which is why a new dome formed on the mountain(until just a couple weeks ago). Though there are periodic pulses and steam eruptions this video appears to be from the October tremor which sent a skyscraper sized chunk of the extruded spine-like formation onto the dome which generated a dust and ash cloud.

[suvps]

its a steam eruption its a warning of a soon and bigger eruption thats is going to come mother nature will tell us when

[DorkyDippindunkin]

I heard that the ash/ dust from the eruption made it all the way to Britain. O_O

[LoyalKayala]

was this 2004 or 1980??? just wondering.

[tccedar]

This was 2004 most likely - the 1980 eruption was immense.

[LoyalKayala]

ok thanxs:)

[brakedance6]

I think its from a commercial plane, you can hear the announcements at the beginning.

[ibezag0]

this video is crap

[larryhobson99]

one of the worst in us history

[airplanefreak132]

not even that big i think

[rjeffrey743]

Oh it's big.

[bouderisawesome]

Its big in the 1980 blast it could be heard all the way into Canada, it just didnt eject much lava, it was more mud from the melted ice and Pyroclastic flows

[larryhobson99]

lol

[larryhobson99]

u suck larryhobson99

[Canuckshousz]

holy crap who ever recorded this vid is reaaly high up in the sky

[actrol]

if an airplane goes through volcanic ash its engines stop working and it crashes

[shaun161082]

thanks for wasting my time arse hole!!!

[dell123456789]

good job u got Mount St. Helens smoking on tape ♠

[saubug]

WTF!!? IT DIDNT EVEN EXPLODE!!!

What a cheapskate

WHO WOULD RATE THIS A COULD COMMENT!?

[wtf2krazy]

ME!

[puppetmaster2222]

u twat

[Coolcheesystuff]

hahah what a load of cheese mmmmm im a nerd for geography pooo yum cheese tyvm!

[bartmankid]

all u did was fly around it for like a minute and seconds so yeah it sucked! anyway fack u! this video sucks i needed it for a project it sucks though!

[delilahrock10777]

lmao i meant to put two and a half hours, sorry i could see this plume from where i lived is what i mean to say sorry bout that!

[delilahrock10777]

i live around two and a half miles from mt st helens and i could see this it was awesome!

[Nevanlinna]

It devastated everything in 24 kilometres near it. You'd be quite... dead by now. Unless you mean that you can see the ruins

[xabcx]

so i'm thinking this guy is a pile of ashes...

[footballteen58]

The volcano didn't erupt vertically it blasted out its side if you lived on the opposite side you were fine for the most part.

[xiangyik]

Righto.

[fistard]

I just love the photographer taking a picture with the flash on a distance of 15 km

[bongoguy1]

i had to laugh at that 2

[bongoguy1]

i thought that was funny to when he developed his film he must of got a white cloud

he never heard of a reflection off of glass what a ding dong hehehehe

[carrollthirteen]

Definitely not the May 18th eruption, that plume was HUGE.

This does look like something from before that though, because there seems to be much more to the mountain that what's currently there.

[Rokynutz]

that was a video in prolly '04...from all the mini eruptions like that there on the film the cinderdome(limp in the middle) grows. it has been doing that for a while now...its almost to the crater rim. btw i live like 30mins from mt st helens.

[carrollthirteen]

I live about 20 miles from it, and witnessed the May 18th 1980 eruption.

In fact, I was in Cougar(basically *on* the mountain) less than 12 hours before it blew.

If this is an '04 eruption, it's a very odd angle,you can't see the lava dome(no cinders flying there...usually)at all from this shot, the way you would from a plane or helicopter. Also, the mountain in this footage has a lot more above the timberline than what currently exists at Mt St Helens.

[Rokynutz]

"Also, the mountain in this footage has a lot more above the timberline than what currently exists at Mt St Helens."...True... didn't realise that....thanks...i wish i was around when it blew the first time, but i was born 7 years later...

[carrollthirteen]

Hey, we're born when we're born.

Mt St Helens was always a beautiful mountain, and even 30 years ago, when I would see it on family drives my dad took us in the Gorge, I could tall it was a volcano.

When we moved to Vancouver, and it started getting active, I was ecstatic about it!

Harry Truman and David Johnston were heroes to me as a nerdy 9 year old.

[WhyteRomeo]

ur a moron, there was no lava dome or cinders at the mt st helen's eruption because the eruption was a steam eruption! Oh and if you lived 20 miles from the mountain, you wouldn't have a place to call home anymore...

[carrollthirteen]

I currently live in Heisson Washington, around 20 miles(give or take) south of the mountain. At the time, I lived in Vancouver Washington, about 10 miles south of here.

The lava domes started growing *after* the May 18th explosion, which was far more than a "steam explosion", and blew out the whole North side, not the South side. If you look at my videos you'll see that I filmed a video from Yale Lake, which is about 5 miles from the mountain.

[JaseSpace900]

Actually, the May 18, 1980 eruption (and all of the rest of them afterwards) faced ENTIRELY northward. The eruption was NOT a steam event, it was a pyroclastic surge following the removal of the northern face after an earthquake-triggered landslide. Do your research BEFORE you go randomly commenting. MORON.

[gumbyfun]

I just posted a video response I did of the March 8, 2005 eruption. Check it out.

[drewsellers18]

dude the volcanoe did not erupt on march 8 2005 it just showed signs that it wosnt dorment

[kewlguy34]

This is video from 2005 i would say..the author never said what year

[demonhoopa]

that was really stupid!

[TennantWaydotcom]

cool vid....been there done that ....

[Rokynutz]

lol...with your name tennantway...you are from longview

[Knightfang1]

This appears to be saint helens from the south, during the recent minor eruptions over the last two years. the 1980 eruption sent a mushroom cloud several thousamd feet up. after the north face collapsed. I was watching the news live in 2005 when the steam eruption happened and everybody got all excited because it happend on live tv.

[Knightfang1]

I checked up and the 1980 eruption sent ash 16 miles into the sky so this is definatly not the 1980 eruption.

[rmbnxs]

Mt. St. Helens errupted several more times after the first big erruption in May 1980. It kept errupting for another six months or so, and all of those erruptions were much bigger than this. This isn't from 1980.

[p7lht]

i live in michigan and my grandpa remembers that ash blew all the way over here so that was definatly

[p7lht]

not it

[XXTwistedMetalXX]

naw the big one was may 18th 1980....that did probably blow alllll the way over there.

[pauli4975]

There were several eruptions from the top before she blew from the side in the months leading up the the big one............

[slexpis]

well mt. st helens blew from the side this clearly shows a verticly explosion

[oisin71849]

Disappointing

[MeXMac10]

Cool vid.

[Muskett91]

There are 20 angels in this world

10 are sleeping

9 are playing

1 is reading this

[jackjohnson0]

yeah i think this was just the 2006 steam eruption

[kellyarnold181194]

cool it wasnt the 1980 1 tho cos that one cam out of the side

[NeoSilvanus]

this must have been the 2005 eruption, the 1980 one kinda came out of the side

[evilwatermelon]

there is no video of the accual eruption of 1980 except for the series of photos people have computer generated into a motion picture and news video durring the eruption

[jontyandroz]

When was this filmed?

[kittykatstar]

Oh wow, amazing shot of the eruption.

[burkie8544]

amazing

[KaliBoyinPDX]

Is this a passenger jetliner or a aerial surveylance video from the USGS? I have a great view of the entire mountain from my balcony here on the hills above Downtown Portland. Nice video.

[knudc001]

It's a passenger jetliner. I was delayed in Seattle for about 45 minutes so the airline could file a new flight plan. It was worth it though. Thanks for the comment.