“Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!” Those were the last words of scientist David A. Johnston; he was buried alive after the devastating eruption of mt.st.helens. Everybody was watching mt.st.helens, not knowing when it will erupt and what will happen when it does. Him and 56 other people died that day. Luckily my mom made it! On May 18th 1980 mt.st.helens erupted. My mom was looking out the window watching A huge cloud of ash coming towards her house. She remembers thinking it was like snow but dark. Her parents were watching the news. The news said that mt.st.helens has erupted and to bring inside anything outside that you want to keep. So my mom helped her dad bring in supplies from outside. My mom was 11 years old at the
In March 18, 1880 Mount St. Helens there was a catastrophic eruption that caused a huge volume of ash; the ash plume would be over central Colorado within 16 hours. After years of dedicated monitoring (knowing where to volcano is, unlike an earthquake not knowing exactly where this geological even is exactly) there was been increasing accuracy in forecasting eruptions.
There were others that wanted to go to the top to survive, so they hurriedly rushed to the top, heading up the stairs, everyone ambushed them. While rushing up the stairs for survival, people were being thrown over the stairs, pushed down, and ran over. Eventually most were either murdered or killed by the disaster, except for a few that were also fighting up the stairs for survival. Last, in Philadelphia, there was a woman and dozens of other passengers on the plane.
On May 22, 1915, an explosive eruption at Lassen Peak devastated nearby areas and rained volcanic ash farther 200 miles to the east! This explosion was the most powerful in a series of eruptions from 1914 through 1917. ...
...815 eruption of Mount Tambora. With over 70,000 deaths and a rating of 7 on the volcanic exclusivity index, this eruption is one of the largest in recorded history. Not only did this volcano cause destruction in Indonesia but the consequences were further felt around the world, as volcanic ash and sulphuric gases were dumped into the stratosphere causing a global climate shift. Dark clouds covered the sun, and dramatic weather changes ensued. Flash floods frequently occurred wiping out a great deal of crop eventually causing prices to skyrocket. Disease began to spread due to malnourishment and unsanitary living conditions. Eventually these consequences subsided and citizens began to migrate towards Mount Tambora once again. Today the government has placed seismic sensors are set up in the most volatile areas to ensure preparedness in the event of another volcano.
At 5:12 a.m. on April 18th, 1906, the California city of San Francisco was awoken by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake. Chaos erupted with the earthquake leading to fire break outs throughout San Francisco (Cameron and Gordon. Pgs 69-73).The earthquake and the resulting fires caused destruction to majority of the city with buildings crumbling and igniting into flames. Many people died along with thousands and thousands of people being left homeless. This devastating earthquake left the city and United States in a financial crisis. Although the 1906 earthquake was one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, the city of San Francisco was able to overcome these substantial physical, social and economic impacts it had.
San Francisco and Chicago are cities that will always be remembered during their time of massacre. Many were lost but through the losses they gained new structures that protect the citizens today and the ones yet to come. Although the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 were both horrific events that created huge destruction on the United States, they took a big toll in people’s lives in many different ways and encouraged them to take charge and rebuild back their hometowns that they loved.
The first time was when I was 4. They couldn't really do anything for us because of how bad the fire was. We moved to another house and a couple years later we moved back on to our land that we still owned when the house fire happen. We got a moble home and placed it on the land and we added onto the house to make a house so it was a house then. This past year in 2015 of the summer on June 2nd, it was a school day and it was 3 days before school ended. I was pulled out of class and I saw all of my sisters and my mom. We were walking out of the school and my mom told us what happen and I fell to the grown because all i could think was we are just gonna move again. As soon as I got home, a man was on our front porch and he was from Red Cross. He told me that everything was going to be okay and that they were gonna help us get back on our feet. With their help in a month we were back on our feet and we rebuilt our house and now we are doing just fine because we had Red
The mountains were tall (11,000 feet +) and covered with bright powdery snow. It was like nothing I had ever seen before. I was eager to set-up camp and prepare for our nine day hunt. But, Dad said that we had to drive around and check out all the good places, just to make sure that we were in the best area. This was partially understandable, but since I am a teenager I'm not supposed to understand anything! So, we spent another several hours driving. We went up and down through the mountains and then we saw it. The spot was beautiful; it was right on the edge of a vertical drop-off, over looking everything. It was like paradise, but colder!
Before the ‘The Rage in Albion’ was published Cecelia Peters was already famous with the publication of her first poetry book 'The Muse' which signals a Poetess in the making. It was pleasures reading her new book at one go, as the pages fly by.
Boom! A once ice-capped mountain peak explodes as ash fills the air. “‘Vancouver, Vancouver, this is it!’”Those were the last words of expert geologist David Johnston (Gunn 561). In 1980, Mount Saint Helens of the state of Washington erupted, filling the air with ash and causing mudflows powerful enough to lift tons. It decimated everything in its path. The eruptions, mudflows, and ash caused great damage on the landscape, yet it gave us information on how catastrophes happen and how they affect society and the surrounding landscape. The data acquired can also help us understand the way the landscape was formed. Mount Saint Helens caused much damage, but also helped people understand the science behind it.
On the night of April 18, 1906, the whole town was woken by erratic shaking. Although the earthquake lasted under a measly minute, it caused significant damage. Many fires started all throughout the city; San Francisco burned in turmoil.
El Salvador, 6 April 1992--Three siblings died near the Guazapa volcano last weekend when they stepped on a mine planted during the period of civil warfare. Ironically, their parents had returned to the area only a few days earlier. The children were four, six and eight years old. Parts from the three children's bodies were found as far as 30 metres from the explosion site. (qtd. in Grant 25)
It was sad, 500 countries in 9 midwest states had been hit hard. It was so horrible it covered some much land I heard it was up to 20 million acres of land…So many people died. literally, about 50 people died. The cemetery was built in 1828. After the disaster a team of experts called DMORTS had helped gather up coffins
1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the 1991 eruption Mt. Pinatubo. (Ball, J. n.d.).
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