Mt St Helens New hiking medallion shield mount badge stocknagel G2754

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Mount St. Helens May 18, 1980

Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is located 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. The mountain is part of the Cascade Range and was known as Louwala-Clough which means \"smoking or fire mountain\" in the language of the local Native Americans, the Klickitats. It was named for British diplomat Lord St Helens who was a friend of George Vancouver, an explorer who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.

It is most famous for the catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980 at 8:32am. That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. (The largest eruption in US history was remote Mount Katmai, in 1912, in Alaska). Fifty-seven people were killed and 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing its summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,364 feet (2,550 m) in elevation and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater (see geology section or 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens for more detail). The debris avalanche from the 1980 eruption was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.3 km³) in volume, making it the largest in recorded history. However, the scale of the blast still pales in comparison to far larger debris avalanches that have occurred in the geological past elsewhere on Earth.

Like most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is a great cone of rubble consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice and other deposits. The mountain includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit; another formed Goat Rocks dome on the northern flank. These were destroyed in the eruption of 1980.

Mount St. Helens is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire which includes over 160 active volcanoes

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