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Effects On Mount St. Helens
Imagine you're one of the people that decide to ignore the officials warnings of an eruption on Mount St. Helens. It's May 18, 1980, 8:32 a.m. and you hear a rumble and feel the earth move. Behind you, you hear a thunderous noise. When you turn around, you see a humongous landslide headed your way. Mount St. Helens in Washington State has erupted, immediately a cloud of gas, rock, and hot ash shot up in the air and race down the mountainside at an unimaginable speed. The eruption created a mass of destruction, which effected many people locally and worldwide. The environment in the area was forever changed.
Even though the environment was harmed greatly, the damage could have been much worse. “Because the major explosion occurred at 8:32

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