Mount St. Helens

Mount St. HelensMount St. Helens

By: Alex GreenBy: Alex Green

LocationLocation

• Located in Washington state

• (42.20 N , 122.18 W)

• About a 3 hour drive from Seattle

• Mt St. Helens is located on the circum pacific belt.

SizeSize

• It is 8,363 feet high

Last eruptionLast eruption

• May 18, 1980, 8:32 am (PDT)

• active

Type of volcanoType of volcano

• Mt St Helens is a stratovolcano (or a composite volcano)

Type of eruptionType of eruption

• Mt. St. Helens’ eruption was a pyroclastic flow.

• The lava flow for a pyroclastic eruption is a very fast hot rocks and hot gas

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• 57 people were killed as a result of Mt St Helens eruption in 1980

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• 7000 big game animals were believed to have died in the eruption

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• Mt St Helens is believed to keep erupting but no one know when It will erupt next

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• http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=+mt+st+helens&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2

• http://www.olywa.net/radu/valerie/StHelens.html

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