I love to read about Natural Disasters, it gives perspective on how fukking insignificant we are in this World. Even if we all die from Global Warming, the Earth will stick around until it dies in the future; billions and billions of years off.
Anywho, today is the 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens erupting.
And basically while the Death Count was pretty low in comparison (Krakatoa/Vesuvius), it could've been a much higher body count.
On March 27th, 1980, tremors signaled that the once dormant volcano was re-awakening.
So the USGS went to the area to investigate per normal.
Now that area prior to this event was a great outdoors area, tons of forest; beautiful. Plus they had Spirit Lake that settled near the base of the Volcano.
Now as time went on though, the Volcano was showing increasing signs of activity and danger. The reason being was that Magma wasn't going to the crater, it had found a weakpoint in the Northern Side, where Spirit Lake was; evidence by the Volcano literally having a bulge, as if it was pushing out a Zit. (Around Late April 1980)
So in response to the threat surrounding Spirit Lake and residential areas, people were ordered to evacuate for safety. For about 18 days between that, some people still crossed in the danger zone area to hike/take pictures. Most were cool about it, until it became too much, and people were getting antsy to get back home because the Volcano didn't explode yet.
Then Today, on May 18th, at 8:32:11 a.m Pacific Time, a tremor caused all that bottled up magma and gasses to find it's way out, and instead of the normal explosion upwards through the crater itself, it went lateral towards Spirit Lake.
The Pyroclastic Flow basically was this ultra-fast gas, that stewed for years in a pressure cooker and then released. Basically this is Death Incarnate, basically in order to survive this, you need to be in a bunker with no windows and pray to god you can hold in your air from the toxic fumes. This is what looks like from another eruption:
In the end some people, more than 10 miles away were killed, and Spirit Lake; a once popular destination for outdoors, was fukked up.
And the grey you see in this picture are the logs that were pushed into the lake from the blast.
There could have been more deaths, but luckily on that same day of the Eruption, the local government was planning to let people back if they signed a no-blame waver. Still it's relevant to this day, as with COVID-19, people want business to open up despite Science saying otherwise.
Still St. Helens was an awesome display of power, one that should make us respect how the Earth doesn't care about us, we are just living here.
Anywho, today is the 40th Anniversary of Mount St. Helens erupting.
And basically while the Death Count was pretty low in comparison (Krakatoa/Vesuvius), it could've been a much higher body count.
On March 27th, 1980, tremors signaled that the once dormant volcano was re-awakening.
So the USGS went to the area to investigate per normal.
Now that area prior to this event was a great outdoors area, tons of forest; beautiful. Plus they had Spirit Lake that settled near the base of the Volcano.
Now as time went on though, the Volcano was showing increasing signs of activity and danger. The reason being was that Magma wasn't going to the crater, it had found a weakpoint in the Northern Side, where Spirit Lake was; evidence by the Volcano literally having a bulge, as if it was pushing out a Zit. (Around Late April 1980)
So in response to the threat surrounding Spirit Lake and residential areas, people were ordered to evacuate for safety. For about 18 days between that, some people still crossed in the danger zone area to hike/take pictures. Most were cool about it, until it became too much, and people were getting antsy to get back home because the Volcano didn't explode yet.
Then Today, on May 18th, at 8:32:11 a.m Pacific Time, a tremor caused all that bottled up magma and gasses to find it's way out, and instead of the normal explosion upwards through the crater itself, it went lateral towards Spirit Lake.
The Pyroclastic Flow basically was this ultra-fast gas, that stewed for years in a pressure cooker and then released. Basically this is Death Incarnate, basically in order to survive this, you need to be in a bunker with no windows and pray to god you can hold in your air from the toxic fumes. This is what looks like from another eruption:
In the end some people, more than 10 miles away were killed, and Spirit Lake; a once popular destination for outdoors, was fukked up.
And the grey you see in this picture are the logs that were pushed into the lake from the blast.
There could have been more deaths, but luckily on that same day of the Eruption, the local government was planning to let people back if they signed a no-blame waver. Still it's relevant to this day, as with COVID-19, people want business to open up despite Science saying otherwise.
Still St. Helens was an awesome display of power, one that should make us respect how the Earth doesn't care about us, we are just living here.
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