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Mount Saint Helens

  • Mt. St. Helens has a small eruption and evacuation starts

    Mt. St. Helens has a small eruption and they begin evacuation
  • Scientists discover a bulge

    Scientists discover a bulge in the side of the volcano
  • Red zone established

    Officials establish a red zone; kicking people ot of their homes.
  • Coldwater 2 is set up

    Scientists set up a second observation base
  • Earthquakes start

    Earthquake on and around Mt. St. Helens start.
  • People go back to there homes

    The volcano still hasn't errupted so officials let the people go back to their homes.
  • 8:32 A.M: Mount Saint Helens errupts

    Earthquakes shake the mountain as Mt. St. Helens errupts.
  • 8:40 A.M: Mountain's ice caps melt and start a mud slide

    The Mountain ice caps melt making a boiling hot mudslide go down the mountain
  • 10:10 A.M: Ash reaches Spokane, Washington

    The Ash has reached as far as Spokane, Washington.
  • Jimmy Carter flies over the destruction

    President Jimmy Carter flies over all of the destruction made by Mt. St. Helens
  • The mountain errupts once again

    Mt. St. Helens errupts again
  • A tree is planted

    The first tree since the disaster is planted and begins the grow the forrest back