Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.  The park service has done a good job of making nice signs for the park.  While the cute puff of smoke above the volcano in the picture looks harmless, the eruption in the 80's was very destructive in terms of loss of life and property.  

Here is what's left of a tree after the eruption.  It is inside the observation center and is across from the volcano.  The park service has a wonderful movie about the eruption, make sure and make time to see it.  This observation site is dedicated to David A. Johston (who died in the eruption). 

Facts about the Mt. Saint Helens eruption on May 18th, 1980 at 8:32am PDT:

1. Fifty seven people (including innkeeper Harry R. Truman and geologist David A. Johnston) and thousands of animals were killed.
2. Hundreds of square miles were reduced to wasteland, causing over a billion U.S. dollars in damage ($2.74 billion in 2007 dollars), and Mount St. Helens was left with a crater on its north side.
3. At the time of the eruption, the summit of the volcano was owned by the Burlington Northern Railroad, but afterward the land passed to the United States Forest Service.
4. Mt. St. Helens remained dormant from its last period of activity in the 1840s and 1850s until March 1980. Several small earthquakes beginning as early as March 15, 1980, indicated that magma may have been moving below the volcano.
5. A 5.1 magnitude earthquate (from 1 mile underneath the volcano) triggered the eruption.

 To learn more, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt._St._Helens_eruption.

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