The St Helens Eruption in Tweets
The NW Branch of the US Forest Service Counts down the May 18th, 1980 Mt St Helens eruption via tweets:
A serene scene of a family fishing on Spirit Lake under the seemingly peaceful eye of Mount St. Helens a brief time before the eruption. #History #photography pic.twitter.com/qdU9NbjgOy
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) July 19, 2018
Countdown to Eruption: Skiers in view of Mount St Helens soon before eruption. #MtStHelens @GPNF pic.twitter.com/ViQeu5hW9v
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
Countdown to eruption 7:00 AM: Volcanologist David Johnston @ Coldwater II camp sends last report via radio @GPNF #MtStHelens pic.twitter.com/eXu9TkCi73
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
Countdown to eruption 8:32 AM: A 5.1 seismic earthquake radiates for miles from the mountain. #MtStHelens @GPNF pic.twitter.com/NvfY8kFohb
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
A true hero. Thank you for your service, David:
Countdown to eruption 8:32 AM: "Vancouver, Vancouver, This is it!" David Johnston's last recorded words spoken. David did not survive but the Coldwater II camp was renamed Johnston Ridge in his honor. #MtStHelens @GPNF pic.twitter.com/vccUKw9Gpq
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
Countdown to eruption 8:32 AM: the north face of #MtStHelens collapses shooting ash at 300 mph & causing the largest landslide in recorded history @GPNF pic.twitter.com/jth1wh7x5u
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
“I was outside contemplating what to put in the raised planting beds of our newly constructed passive solar house. I heard a sonic boom. We had just received 2 grey kittens from my sister Terry. We decided to name them Smoke and Ash,”
– Craig Corliss – 154 miles from Mount St Helens, in Eugene, OR at the time of the eruption.
Countdown to eruption 8:32 AM: 15 seconds after the 1st blast, a column of ash shoots 12 miles up the sky, drifting across the U.S. in 3 days & reaching out worldwide in 15 days, blanketing a total of 22,000 square miles. #MtStHelens @GPNF pic.twitter.com/TGEyLt5f6g
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
The Oregon BLM and others also have tweeted about the eruption:
Only 30 minutes after Mount St. Helens erupted, @USGS scientists took to the air to capture this incredible footage – see the full video: https://t.co/KBdKklrDsA #OTD #PNW #MountStHelens pic.twitter.com/YhHmacvZeP
— BLM Oregon & Washington (@BLMOregon) May 18, 2018
Photos taken by climbers atop Mt. Adams when #MtStHelens erupted on May 18, 1980. pic.twitter.com/5XXZfUaXOQ
— Mount St. Helens (@MtStHelensNVM) May 18, 2018
Aftermath of eruption: Ash darkened the sky covering 22,000 sq miles. The lahars took out 27 bridges & nearly 200 homes. Streetlights turn on in Spokane in the morning. #MtStHelens @GPNF pic.twitter.com/QHIYpSr4RZ
— Forest Service NW (@ForestServiceNW) May 18, 2018
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