Episode 23: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

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🗓️ 17 December 2016

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Sunday dawned warm and sunny in the Cascade mountain range. Hikers and fishermen savored the beautiful weather that morning, sure they were far from the danger they knew had been rumbling for weeks now. But at 8:32 AM on May 18, 1980, an earthquake shuddered through Mount St. Helens which triggered the massive volcanic eruption which everyone had been waiting for -- and yet, in at least one major way, almost no one saw coming.

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0:00.8	Hello everybody.
0:02.0	This is Jennifer Matarise.
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0:43.2	so much for listening, and welcome to Disaster Area.
1:04.4	Episode 23, the eruption of Mount St. Helens. May 18, 1980. 57 deceased, many injured.
1:17.6	Vancouver, this is it! The last transmission of volcanologist David Johnston from an observation spot six miles from the mountain on May 18th. We are all overdue to die. The Yellowstone Caldera is a supervolcano located under the Wyoming National Park, which measures hundreds of square miles.
1:30.3	It erupted 2.1 million years ago, 1.3 million years ago, and 630,000 years ago.
1:38.3	The last super volcanic eruption on the planet in Indonesia killed over half of the people on Earth. The Yellowstone
1:45.7	Caldera is on a timer, and it's about to go off. Okay, now that I've absolutely terrified you,
1:52.2	the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 might not seem nearly as scary, but on its own,
1:57.5	the eruption produced some of the most upsetting photos of disaster since the advent of photography.
2:02.6	It killed 57 people that we know of, along with most of the wildlife which got in its path.
2:07.6	It scorched the land, leaving some areas still scarred to this day.
2:11.6	The mountain lost over 1,300 feet in height as a result of the avalanche an explosion which devastated it.
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