Volcano Visit
Yesterday I visited the mighty Mount St. Helens. This is my second visit to the place. I was so fascinated by this place the first time that I wanted to visit the place again. As I had said before at Mount St. Helens the "destruction is seductive". The wrath, the fury of The Earth which you could witness at St. Helens is something you should see for yourself. No words or Photographs can describe what you actually see. Destruction everywhere. You have acres of standing burnt down forests.
St.Helens last erupted on May 18, 1980 at 8:32am. That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed and 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing its summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,364 feet (2,550 m) in elevation and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater The debris avalanche from the 1980 eruption was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.3 km3) in volume, making it the largest in recorded history.
Mount St. Helens is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire which includes over 160 active volcanoes.
Click here for a picture of St.Helens I took from about 4 miles.
