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Episode 23: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

Episode 23: The eruption of Mount St. Helens

Disaster Area · Disaster Area

December 17, 20161h 25m

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Show Notes

Sunday dawned warm and sunny in the Cascade mountain range. Hikers and fishermen savored the beautiful weather that morning, sure they were far from the danger they knew had been rumbling for weeks now. But at 8:32 AM on May 18, 1980, an earthquake shuddered through Mount St. Helens which triggered the massive volcanic eruption which everyone had been waiting for -- and yet, in at least one major way, almost no one saw coming.