Mt. St. Helens

  • First Eruption

    6:02am Small explosion first shake eruption at 12:30pm awakens the mountain from dormant slumber
  • Evacuation

    People evacuated from the area Mt. Sr. Helens is near
  • bulge is formed

    magma is starting to rise and bulge forms
  • Small eruption

    another small eruption occurs and bulge keeps growing
  • waiver

    people signed a waiver because they wanted to go home so badly even though the mountain was possibly going to erupt.
  • earthquake

    earthquake of a 5.5 causes eruption 25 seconds after earthquake bigger cloud of ash than the bombing of Hiroshima.
  • eruption

    explosion over 10,000 TNT on the mountain 9:01 am
  • death toll

    last body found death toll 57