St. helens

Earth is an extraordinary place where many titanic forces are at work each day. At the location of Mount St. Helens though, an eruption occurred that had never been recorded before in human history, taking off 600 feet of its summit. The study of this eruption will help bring Geologists closer to understanding the secrets of Earth. Mount Saint Helens stands south of Seattle 100 miles, helping to create part of the Cascade Mountain Range. Before May 18th of 1980, the mountain was the center of a

Need for medical attention and fall mortality rates has laid more emphasis on the rapid growth in population ageing across the globe (WHO. 2007). Specifically, St Helen fall strategy explained how injuries caused by fall are noted to be a concerned public health issue as it now accounts the most common cause of death among older adults (St Helen’s council, 2014 and Age UK, 2010). It is of no doubt that falls has a high impact on health outcomes, quality of life and life expectancy which invariably

The 1980 Mt. St. Helens explosion revolutionized the scientific study and volcanic monitoring; the devastation brought many geologists to investigate the scientific and hazard assessments of the massive volcano explosion. This explosion became the deadliest catastrophic volcanic event that killed many people and destroyed many communities, which the explosion created a major landslide, directed blast, eruption plume, pyroclastic flows, and lahars (Vallance, Gardner, Scott, Iverson, Pierson, 2010)

Mt. St. Helens Located northeast of Portland, Oregon is a huge volcano called Mt. St. Helens. It sits between two Mt. Hood and Mt. Adams and youngest the of many volcanoes on the Cascade Range of the pacific northwest. Captain George Vancouver gave the mountain its name in 1792; named after Alleyne Fitzherbert (Baron St. Helens), who was British Ambassador to Spain. Mt. St. Helens is a composite volcano, which means typically symmetrical cone like structure that is steep sided, that is constructed

When Mount St. Helens erupted it took lives and destroyed at least fifty miles of the surrounding area. A volcano is a mountain or hill where a vent forms in the earth’s crust, letting ash, lava, and steam escape. Mount St. Helens included many details common to volcanic eruptions, caused damage and destruction, and how the area has recovered. Volcanoes are classified with the Volcanic Explosively Index (VEI) scale. Mount St. Helens was ranked at a five, the highest is an eight. The volcano erupted

The first sign of Mt. St. Helen exploding was a landslide starting at the rim of the summit crater. In 15 seconds, the north side of Mt. St. Helen was making its way down the side of the volcano. After the entire north side had collapsed superheated gasses and lava were released in a massive lateral explosion. This abrupt release of pressure created a nuees arfentes, “which is (in a volcanic eruption) a swiftly flowing, dense cloud of hot gases, ashes, and lava fragments.”1. The nuees arfentes wiped

Mount St. Helens Imagine a single event that can kill 57 people and 7000 deer and elk. Snap trees like a toothpick, and turn the sky grey for 15 days. Now, stop imagining, Mount St. Helens, in the Cascade Range of southwestern Washington State, erupted. On May 18th,1980. According to (Campbell 371), “At least $1 billion in economic damage was reported”. The eruption of Mount St. Helens took many lives, and devastated America. Mount St. Helens destroyed more than 230 square miles of ancient forest

Volcanoes are an important part of nature. Mount St. Helens was like a small nuclear bomb. ‘After the eruption the volcano was 8,360 on one side and the other side of the mountain was gone or some people say it disappeared,”according to Howstuffworks. That was one of the biggest volcano eruption. Lava is an important part of nature because it puts nutrients that it never had. The plants grow better than they were before. “Over 500 years Mount St. Helens has erupted four major times.”according to

officials due to the high risk of eruption. We can learn how to prepare for such an event by looking at past eruptions of similar volcanos types such as; the Mt. St. Helens eruption in 1980 in the State of Washington, the Nevado del Ruiz eruption in 1985 in Colombia, and the Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991in the Philippines. Mt. St. Helens Starting with the subduction of the oceanic plate which is being dragged beneath the North American Plate. The weight of the water on the oceanic plates increases

Geography study on the differences Between the volcanoes MT st Helens and Kilauea Kilauea is a volcano in the Hawaiian Islands it is one of the five shield volcanoes in the Hawaiian language Kilauea means spewing or spreading. Mt St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Washington it is named after British diplomat lord st Helens. There are many differences between the volcanoes for example the explosivity of the two volcanoes most recent eruptions are completely different Kilauea is almost