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5 unusual facts about 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens


47th Air Division

The May 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the state of Washington seriously affected division operations; aircraft were dispersed to various bases, while around-the-clock shifts removed the volcanic ash.

81st Heavy Brigade Combat Team

It responded to floods in December 1975 and November 1990, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, forest fires in 1994 and many other years, and the WTO Riots of 1999.

ATS-3

The satellite has served as a communications link for rescue operations, including the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Chemnitz petrified forest

The tree-like plants were uprooted or snapped off by the blast of the eruption, much like the trees caught in the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

Terry Drinkwater

He covered such notable events as the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia "Patty" Hearst and the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.


ATS-3

Its imaging capability has served during disaster situations, from the Mexico earthquake to the Mount St. Helens eruption.

Council Crest Park

Although the observation tower erected in 1907 was dismantled in 1941, the city later built an observation area in the park from which it is possible to see Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Hood, and Mount Jefferson in the Cascade Range.

Dan Holdsworth

In his images of the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mount Shasta, Mount St. Helens, Salt Lake City and Park City, we see stark, uninterrupted terrains where meaning is made through what it is absent, as much as what is seen.

Dwight Crandell

Dwight R. "Rocky" Crandell (1923 - April 6, 2009) was an American volcanologist who alongside Donal R. Mullineaux correctly predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century.

Helenite

Helenite was first discovered accidentally after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.

Helenite, also known as Mount St. Helens obsidian, emerald obsidianite, and ruby obsidianite, is a synthetic gemstone made from the fused volcanic rock dust from Mount St. Helens.

Henry Van Asselt

They spent July 4, 1851, at Oregon City, then proceeded, by the Tualatin Plains, to St. Helens.

Jarrod McCracken

McCracken was playing his football in Port Macquarie on the NSW mid-north coast when he was spotted by Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs Chief Executive Peter Moore who persuaded the young Centre to join The Bulldogs in 1991 and stayed with the club until 1995, although he also spent the 1992/93 English season with St. Helens.

John Brass

During the 1976 NSWRFL season, Brass played as a centre three-quarter back for Eastern Suburbs in their unofficial 1976 World Club Challenge match against British champions St. Helens in Sydney.

John Gribbin

In February 1982 he and Plagemann published The Jupiter Effect Reconsidered, claiming that the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption proved their theory true despite a lack of planetary alignment.

Kent Invicta

The record attendance was 2,107 against St. Helens on 6 November 1983, by which time the club was bankrupt and the reins were taken over by Jim Thompson, the chairman of the soccer club.

Luzula parviflora

It can grow in highly disturbed habitat, as evidenced by its ability to survive volcanic eruption and to thrive in the destroyed ecosystem on the most barren slopes of Mount St. Helens.

Megatsunami

On May 18, 1980, the upper 460 meters (1,509 feet) of Mount St. Helens failed and detached in a massive landslide.

Oregon gubernatorial election, 1938

A third candidate, O. Henry Oleen, a state representative from St. Helens, earned about 7% of the vote.

Rowe Findley

His article on the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens was voted by its readers as the most popular ever published.

Sir Joseph Beecham, 1st Baronet

Beecham was the proprietor of the Aldwych Theatre in London, a Justice of the Peace for Lancashire and was Mayor of St. Helens between 1889 and 1899 and again from 1910 to 1912.

Stuart Wright

Along with James "Jim" Leytham, Stanley "Stan" Moorhouse, Peter Norburn, Keith Fielding, Martin Offiah, and Sam Tomkins, having scored four tries, Stuart Wright jointly holds the record for the most tries scored in an England match, scoring four tries against Wales at Knowsley Road, St. Helens on 28 May 1978.

Virginia Sand

Her journeys included trips to the Galapagos Islands, South America, Mexico, Hawaii, Mount St. Helens, Iguaca Falls, Turkey, Iceland, Ecuador, parts of Asia, and the Danube and Rhine Grand Circle in Europe.


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