Volcano Eruption Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980 USGS

[sambo4747]

Thanks for helpng me with my geography assignment :)

[Failspur]

In Ritzville, WA...( ~300 miles away following a road) people were sweeping ash off the streets for weeks, cleaning up. You can still find tons of ash all over WA state.

[conorejotas]

Could have sworn the narrator was Ronald Reagan.

[ZWBadger]

i went 2 the usgs

[echob00mer]

on second thought it looks more like an orc

[echob00mer]

does anyone else see the goblin face in the thumbnail?

[dkseaverns1]

Mother Nature always wins...

[xTurnDaMusicUp]

this helped tons with my homework:D

[HockeyTemper1]

my B day...:)

[BudgieFace11]

God help us if Yellowstone goes up!

[MrZulu2065]

@BudgieFace11 We should be worried about Mt. Rainier, Tacoma would be like hell. Especially in one of those dry summers, all the fires.

[elr456]

Now I wonder what the effects of the Yellowstone caldera will be... I'm scared lol

[Deathsquadstudios4]

@elr456 Most of the U.S past it will be in the ash fall, extreme Environmental effects. Global Nuclear winter for about 7 years. Sounds great.

[Stormmight00]

I heart Geology, but this......this was just sad and one of THE most tragic eruptions I have ever seen and heard. Mt. Saint Helen was just a tragic story and will still proboly haunt the place where it erupted. May th eones that died rest in peace.T_T

[ThePepemaria]

I Just Love Geology and learning about Volcanoes.Since Volcanoes are my worst fear ever since I was 6 years old :-(.You have to know about your fears.

[speedfast01]

In the last decade, the vast majority of deaths around the world are attributed to geologial anomalies. Volcanic mountains are warnings.  California will fair well when a nice 9.0 hits and destroys LA and SF. Les we forget the 1980 St helens explosion and the massive quake to follow down the pacific coast.

[re7urd]

How nice money supersedes human life 0:29

[adesuwa21]

that eruption is sad for the people that were killed

[TimmyGal]

My sis and I actually heard Don Swanson speak. He was at the Johnston Ridge Observatory back in May of 2000, and we heard his speach about what happened there. Very interesting! I was hooked from that day on. :)

[tedGEGI]

Had the opportunity to walk around about 1/5 of Mount St. Helen's perimeter back in July, 2005, when the new dome was venting steam, and there was a threat of additional build-up on it. To see all the trees that were laid down like match sticks on the opposite side of the volcano was totally mind blowing. To think of the explosive force to create such havoc just boggles my brain.

[phillyslasher]

@tedGEGI Well shit, the eruption took off about 1000 feet of the mountain too! And to hear scientists speak of eruptions thousands of years ago being far worse is absolutely incredible. It really puts humanity in it's place if you think about it lol What this planet is capable of is way beyond comprehension.

[supervulcanM]

That was the last American volcano to erupt; now it is just indonesia.

[sturniboy]

all these geologists look exactly the same XD

still very interesting and amazing seen the force of mother nature

[josimc12]

I am sorry but I don't think it will erupt that soon... Scientists would know by now if it were to happen in about 50 years... But you might be right that is just my oponion=p and what i think so let's pray it won't happen!

[PS3roxMYsox]

Just wait till yellowstone errupts...

[highflyer4]

@PS3roxMYsox hope that doesnt happen in my life time or were all fucked, thats a world ending event lol.

[PS3roxMYsox]

@highflyer4 Thats true, butif youhave 50 years in your life left then you will be around to see it, i know i will....

[Lunitonic]

i am doing a project in science and this is very helpful!

[HuskerFishing]

we got some of that ash clear out here in nebraska

[newjerseybt]

After seeing this video I kept thinking about my "check engine" emissions light which kept warning me that my .02 of an inch leak in my gas cap was polluting the world.

[SophieeLoovesCaseey]

doing about this in geography at school

i didnt really know about it before o.o

[7777Jah1]

God can set any volcano he wants! Science can't predict that!

[TheWeeklyLawReports]

@7777Jah1 god doesnt exist accept the tuth of our own mortality and the fact that there is only this life, there is no heaven or hell.

[jesstaffie12345]

im doing a research project 4 class and when i finished taking notes about volcanoes, i started looking at videos of it. this is truly dreadful. david, may u rest in peace for u r a hero. no, u didnt stop the volcanoe but it was headed right at u. u had no chose but 2 stay and see your last sight in aw.

[fractalinfinitas]

Not making light of the lives lost, but its fortunate given the destructive power of the eruption that only 57 people were killed when compared to other historical eruptions. I can't imagine the emotions the other scientists felt having lost one of their colleagues, but I can venture to guess that for all of them, David Johnston included, that this was their life passion. I only hope that David's final moments were filled with a sense of tranquility for being part of such a remarkable event.

[animus999]

you scientists are heros! Dont it make u think how small and important everything is?

[nDabest13]

ash woz not raining that is a lie

[srk4044]

Don Swanson was supposed to be at David Johnston's post that day, but Johnston took his place. He's also the one who found Johnston's backpack and parka when the USGS teams went to go look for Dave.

[SOCKvideos]

Theres a movie that discribes this eruption similary, Its called Dante's Peak.

[maddiessongz123]

Where is mt. st helen exactly?

[srk4044]

@maddiessongz123

Washington State. About 100 miles south of Seattle...maybe 50 miles north(east) of Portland.

[BudgieFace1]

I was only 7yrs,nearly into my 8th yr(bithday's in June,by the way)and this really took me aback!

[randomtv57]

if this is big i dont want to be around when yellow stone blows up

[devilslayer888]

@randomtv57 Chances are, it won't matter. Everyone will likely die in a few days, providing it is a catastrophic eruption; and not a small one. Which everyone is hoping it will be a very small one, sense Yellowstone is a Super Volcano. Mount Saint Helens would be a baby burp in comparison. Mount Rainier could be a bad one too if it heads for Seattle WA.

[JASONATIS]

watching this vid with my boys tyler and k-bomb and mr 0

[dotoloa]

Don Swanson = Chuck Norris

[twain103]

The whole area around St. Helen's looks like the surface of the Moon.Those trees look like matchsticks.

[kmikem78]

@wtf1961 I am not one to ever correct someone's spelling, like you just did with haockeygurl333. However, it is funny to see that you fail to use proper capitalization when starting new sentences. Guess what? Posting on Youtube is not the same as writing an English paper in college. Last time I checked this was not a classroom forum. Anyways, I am going through a geology course right now and this stuff is very interesting.

[wisefelipe]

In the leading days to the explosion, people were pressing hard for the mountain to be reopened to the tourists, because they were losing money with the closing.

Had the government/people in charge and the USGS bowed to these pressures, over 10000 people could have died that day.

Still, everytime somewhere in the world there's a similar risk, the same discussion happens, like in El Hierro now.

They forgot about it already. I guess people will only learn when thousands die...

[haockeygurl333]

cool...i love geology & earth sciences...when my class takes its anual trip to MSH i love it...we get to sudy the all the different types of tools and machines & one year we hiked to the top of the mt...most kids thnk its boringand ther justa bunch of stupid rocks

[wtf1961]

@haockeygurl333 it's cool that you are interested in geology and earth sciences but also don't forget to keep up your english and spelling classes. let me correct your last sentence. most kids think it's boring and they're just a bunch of stupid rocks. see the difference?

[perezjonathan1]

@haockeygurl333 ur awesome :D

[haockeygurl333]

@perezjonathan1 thx! im a geek to the extremes...to the point were the guys from the big bang theory would probably make fun of me

[tb34h]

My dad said ash was raining for days after the eruption

[FreedomFromAlll]

@tb34h It was snowing ash before the big eruption and after.

[Tonganpride1000]

@tb34h Your dad is a Washington native?

[TimHortonP]

Imagine a meteor hit the bulge at 1:29 guess you can just chuck your research in the garbage at that point.

[MrSmutnaMezatka]

Yeah, great images and story!

But whats even greater, is the after-effect and lessons we could learn from this eruption: that if such layering, caused by the gathered waters of Lake Spirit, appeared within hours – why couldnt same thing have happened to other sites, now widely accepted to be millions of years old...??

[weywey3318]

Thanks USGS for all your hard work.

[iamnotamouseok]

"Vancouver, Vancouver, THIS IS IT!". They were his last words...

[CokedUpPuppy]

This was on my mom's 17th birthday. Even scarier, she was living only about an hour and a half away from the mountain.

[xxuncexx]

@CokedUpPuppy the volcano god wants her as a sacrafice!  OR ELSE

[calebsmommy1820]

"Vancouver, Vancouver, THIS IS IT!!!!"

[theurge14]

Everyone from the early 80s has shaggy bowl cuts, thick mustaches and beards and wears Bill Cosby sweaters. :D

[icametorock1]

i saw this happen thru a telescope. was on the roof of the house i lived in at the time. but had no idea what i was seeing. even took a photo of it. if only i realized the history i just witnessed. but hey i was 12 or so at this time.

[awesomeness1121]

this is what happens when Chuck Norris snaps his finger

[captainbones12]

@awesomeness1121 lmao, yup !!

[MrDbz1995]

@awesomeness1121 no it is what happens when he yawns

[upstate831]

i know what im ginna write down on my homework

[joshssc701]

no wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy­yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[TheWonderfulEgg]

Amazing... great video!

[TheJoemoze]

well......thats my homework done.

[ordinarybutfinest]

w0w muka lng gago0!!

[ordinarybutfinest]

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[TaylorJonas101]

@ordinarybutfinest is that tagalog?

[neko4life]

Very impressive. Even more so because the people in the video are the ones who were actually THERE when it happened!

[station10444]

Great watch. Thanks

[ordinarybutfinest]

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