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mount saint
HELENS
the 1980 eruption
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location
Skamania County, Washington
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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belongs to
CASCADE CHAIN
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it is an
active
STRATOVOLCANO
introduction | plate tectonic movement

Beneath Cascades, dense oceanic plate plunges

beneath the North American plate (subduction)
As ocean slab sinks deep into the Earths
interior beneath continental plate, high
temperature and pressure allow water
molecules locked in the minerals of solid rock to
escape
introduction | plate tectonic movement

Pliable water rises up to mantle, causing portion

of mantle to melt Magma rises to Earths
surface forms Cascade Range
Cascade Range 36 million years ago but major
peaks were created 1.6 million years ago
includes 3000 vents that erupted during the last
5 million years ago
introduction | location
info | events prior the hazard
v Volcano was dormant for 100 years
before seismic activity
v 4.2 magnitude earthquake beneath
the volcano on March 20
v 4.0 magnitude earthquake on March
23
v Earthquakes occurred at around 15
per hour
v March 25 4.9 magnitude
earthquake at about 3 per hour
info | events prior the hazard
v Avalanches and rockfalls due to fractures on the glacier surface
v March 27 summit eruption dense column of ash with height
2000m and diameter of 70m steam eruption
v March 27 (eruption) fissure at the north side of the summit
v May 18 5.0 magnitude
info | eruption of the volcano
summary | date and time
DATE: May 18, 1980
TIME: 08:32 am
 summary | areas affected
v Spirit lake was raised more than 60 m after debris
avalanche
v Majority of the avalanche entered the North Fork of the
Toutle River
v Flowed 23 km to fill the valley with a craggy and
hummocky deposit
v Length made it the worlds largest every recorded
v Lahar flowed from North fork of Toutle River and into
as far as Cowlitz River
summary | fatalities
v 57 victims (including David
Johnston, a survey
volcanologist)
summary | property damage
v Destroyed hundreds of homes
v 57 bridges
v 200 miles of roads
v Leveling tens of thousands of acres of forest
v Estimated cost in damage is $1 billion
discussion | aftermath
v Recovery of the region since the disaster
v Likelihood that hazard will happen again?
Recent Activities of the Volcano
q Eruption of 2008
q Seismic Swarms
q Small Eruption back in 2004
q Possibility of eruption due to the small tremors
discussion | aftermath
How do we prepare for
such an event?
discussion | aftermath
Recommended disaster
risk and management
procedures and
engineering solutions to
lessen negative effects
references | list of sources
http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcano
es_work/Sthelens.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/decades-
catastrophic-1980-eruption-mount-st-
helens-recharging/story?id=47461548
https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/81
4620/Mt-St-Helens-LATEST-volcano-
recharging
https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/province
/cascade2.html
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PUA NG VILLANUEVA
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