Saturday, May 18 marks 44 years since Mount Saint Helens erupted. Since then, the state has made big strides in tracking activity on Washington’s volcanoes.
Saturday will mark 44 years since Mount Saint Helens erupted. Since then, the state has made big strides in tracking activity on Washington’s volcanoes.On May 18, 1980, Mount Saint Helens exploded, blowing off around 1,300 feet of the mountain. The stratovolcano, which sent ash 80,000 feet into the atmosphere, killed 57 people, primarily caused by asphyxiation from the ash.Scientists are doing ongoing, active work to install new monitoring stations on volcanoes across the Cascades.
So that gave a lot of time for that sort of potential advanced warning."Tobin says that installing equipment on the volcanoes is challenging. It requires a lot of funding, along with permission and permitting to do this work in protected wilderness land.The Cascade Volcano Observatory with USGS hopes to eventually install eight to 10 new monitoring stations on and near Mt. Baker. The University of Washington will be upgrading the single seismic station on Glacier Peak this summer.
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