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Aerial view of Mount St. Helens from the south, showing one of several steam and ash eruptions. Skamania County, Washington. 1980.

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1980

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Caption: Mount St. Helens spews steam and ash. April 12, aerial view of Mount St. Helens from the south, showing one of several steam and ash eruptions that occurred during the day. This eruption occurred about two weeks after the initial eruption on March 27 at this Cascade Mountain Range volcano and about five weeks before the major eruption on May 18. USGS scientists have estimated that a minimum of one cubic kilometer (1.3 billion cubic yards) of ash and rock was ejected by the volcano during that Sunday morning eruption. In comparison, Mt. Vesivius produced slightly more than one cubic kilometer in its eruption that buried Pompei in 79 A.D. The eruption of Indonesia's Krakatoa in 1883 produced about 20 cubic kilometers of ash. [...]

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