Mt ST Hellenes

  • March 27 1980-12:30

    They had some small explosions
  • March 28

    They started to evacuate people from their homes
  • April 13 1980

    Small ash cloud and gas
  • April 24 1980

    They discover a bulge in the side of the volcano
  • May 1st 1980

    They thought it was going to erupt but it never did
  • May 11 1980-5:00pm

    The ground begins to shake
  • May 16 1980 -3:00pm

    Geologist begin to take turns studying the volcano at different times.
  • May 17 1980-8:00am

    People come and observe the volcano
  • May 18 1980 8:30

    There was a category 5.1 earthquake
  • May 18 1980

    Seconds after the earthquake Mt ST Hellenes erupts
  • May 18 1980

    There was some small eruptions
  • May 18 1980

    Hot lava begins to melt the snow on the mountain and forms a flood
  • May 18 1980-12:00

    The volcano has now erupted
  • May 18 1980

    The volcano has been erupting for about 3-4 hrs
  • May 18 1980

    Some people are taken to the hospitals due to their injures
  • May 18 1980 5:30

    The volcano begins to die down
  • May 18 1980 7:45

    There are 2 people and 2 daters in the woods
  • May 19 1980

    People begin to look for people in the woods
  • May 21-3:00pm

    Jimmy cater flies over the volcano
  • May 25

    It erupts again and send ash up 8 miles in the air
  • June 1980

    They stopped looking for people
  • July 1980

    They found more dead people-57
  • August 27 1980

    People can go and look at the mountain and go on it