From 1980-1990, 74 research projects on Mt. St. Helens were funded by the National Science Foundation at a “total cost of just less than $5 million (“What”).” Some of the costs for reconstruction from the eruption exceeded $47 million within the park and the recovery from the flood was $145 million. Within the new park the Mount St. Helens Visitor's Center at Castle Rock costed a total $5.5 million to construct while the trails, roads in the park, and interpretive centers cost another $42.3 million on top of everything else. From the flooding, the new highway and bridges from the Toutle River to Johnston Ridge cost $145 million.
The devastation caused by the Mt. Saint Helens eruption has been slowly repairing itself naturally. This recent eruption
On September 10, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt help transferred a $20 million from Emergency Relief Act funds to the department of interior for construction of Friant Dam. The following year coming, he signed the act. Projected cost of the Friant Dam and Reservoir came in at $14 million, the Friant-Kern Canal came in at $26 million, and the Madera Canal was $3 million. The dam was built by the United State Bureau of Reclamation and the Faint dam was completed in 1942.
Many of us know Mount Shasta to be a beautiful mountain and a popular tourist location in California. However, this mountain is much more than that, this mountain is actually a volcano. Volcanoes come with a number of hazards and a volcano of this size is of no exception. Previous eruptions on Mount Shasta have given us an idea of the power this volcano has and the damage it may do. With this information scientists are able to predict what may happen should another explosion occur.
On May 18th, 1980, one of the most prominent volcanic eruptions in US History took place in the state of Washington. Mount St. Helens had been dormant for almost 100 years before March 15th. On this day, two months before the eruption several small earthquakes shook the earth. This indicated a magma buildup below the surface, and the first minor event that would lead to one of the greatest eruptions the US has ever known. Following the first set of earthquakes, “Steam explosions blasted a 60- to 75-m (200- to 250-ft) wide crater through the volcano 's summit ice cap and covered the snow-clad southeast sector with dark ash. Within a week the crater had grown to about 400 m (1,300 ft) in diameter and two giant crack systems crossed the entire summit area. Eruptions occurred on average from
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. ...
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.
Yellowstone Park is the world’s first national park and the 8th largest national park in the United States. The park is primarily located in Wyoming and parts of Idaho and Nevada (56 Interesting Facts About . . . Var Addthis_config = ) It is a tourist attraction due it’s 5,000 to 15,000 years old geysers, over 45 waterfalls, canyons, rivers, hot springs, and its massive concentration of natural wildlife. Two of the most popular park attractions are the Old Faithful geyser and the Grand Prismatic springs. ("Fun Facts." - 32 Interesting Facts Yellowstone National Park.)
57 people were killed, and 200 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption blew the top of the mountain off, reducing its summit from 9,677 feet to 8,364 feet in elevation and replacing it with a mile-wide horeshoe-shaped crater. Like most of the other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, St. Helens is a great cone of rubble, consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice and other deposits. Volcanic cones of this internal structure are called composite cones or stratovolcanoes. Mount St. Helens includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted.
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Hidden underneath the park, powerful volcanic, magnetic, and hydrothermal forces are reforming the land. Several earthquakes, uplifting, and subsidence of the landscape proves that these powers exist. Recent studies have caused scientists to think that Yellowstone could be growing larger as flowing molten rock builds up below the ground. In a period of 10 years, the volcano has risen 5 inches, not a significantly detectable difference, but it may have split the ground in the Norris Geyser Bassin that could reawaken some of the geysers, like the Steamboat. In spite of this newly found information, scientists do not speculate the volcano erupting any time soon, but with time, it will end with a super natural disaster, destroying everything in its path
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.
The Magic Tree House is a series of books that most young readers have read throughout elementary school and early middle school. The series is based on two little kids by the names of Jack and Annie. In Vacation Under the Volcano the children travel back in time to the day when Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii. Pompeii was a city included in the ancient Roman Empire and I absolutely love ancient history such as Rome, so this book is one of my all-time favorites. In the first set of books, the kids receive their “missions” from a woman by the name of Morgan le Fay. In this book, the woman assigns Jack and Annie to travel back to the ancient Pompeii and find a specific book she wishes to preserve from the volcanic eruption.
One original cost estimate for construction was approximately $100 million. In actuality, the cost was approximately $27 million which is equivalent to $1.5 billion in today's money. To build the bridge San Francisco issued a bond that resulted in citizens putting up their properties and possessions as collateral. Many opposed to its construction which led to 2300 lawsuits against it. After all, a lot of money went into building the huge
1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the 1991 eruption Mt. Pinatubo. (Ball, J. n.d.).
According to the article “Get into Trouble Outdoors- Who Pays for the Bills,” in the year 2008, The National Park Service spent nearly $5 million on SAR (search and rescue) missions and they continue to spend this amount annually. Of course, this does not include the cost of the thousands of man hours put into these extensive search missions. Unless the rescuees violate a park rule- for example, trespassing into a protected archaeological site- they are not held responsible for the cost.