Mount St. Helens Erupting

Me after eating 1 taco bell

Chat is this real?

So unfathomable to the mind that my brain registers it as one of those animated ai pictures.

Wow looks big !

holy, all that rock flowed like liquid.

I first watched this video when I was 12. Now over 10 years later I've finally visited St. Helens. The entire landscape is amazing

Does anyone know where to find footage that isn't in slow motion?

Bro, how did they render this shit. This would literally fry my computer dead

🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I couldn't imagine Keith & David Johnston seeing that coming towards them... Had to been a scary sight! I hope David didn't suffer & it was quick, it's so sad, RIP

Guau.

Dang, is this in real-time, or a time lapse?

Damn, this is a very old comment section, I read through some of them and I think people should see em, I'll wait for this vid to be in everyone's notifications.

That volcano must have had too much Taco Bell.

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The day I was born...

i'm the type of guy that says, YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS when seeing something like that upclose

PERCY JACKSON!

You can still buy St Helens pottery made from the volcanic ash...we spent a full week indoors after the volcano- had 3 feet of ash fall wayy over to Montana. It was like walking on the moon. Jaw dropping video thanks for posting.

Is that real or a simulation? If so its quite a good one

Dang!!!!!!!!!!!

Good thing Peter Brady toned back the battery on his volcano project. Had he gone bigger, and Marsha and her snooty friends would have been on the receiving end of this infernal 2000-degree cloud of sadness.

QUI VIENT GRACE MR ALMODOVAR

The images were taken by Keith Rosenquist or Keith Ronnholm (credit where credit is due) both at Bear Meadows, roughly 10 miles northeast of the mountain and both who survived (albeit just barely and with incredible luck). It wasn't known until after the eruptions had subsided and geologists were able to view the amphitheater that they discovered Mt. St. Helens had essentially had a "rotten" interior. The upper portion of the cone built up over the centuries from its previous large eruption some 2,000 years earlier was composed of alternating layers of ash, snowpack, etc. When the magma intrusion appeared in 1980 and rose into the upper portion of the cone the heat changed the chemical composition of materials to become essentially "clay".  Hence the reason for the fluid like movement of landside. Since then a similar finding has been discovered in many of the Cascade volcanoes - Mt. Rainier being the most noticeable and will probably follow a similar pattern when it comes to life.

I've been here twice. I even hiked on the trail called Johnston's ridge. The crater looks cool.

Dr. Kent Hovind's seminar, the "Hovind Theory" brought me here!

an entire mountain flowing like water and then exploding such power enough to kill the man behind that very camera filming that Mountain that everyone sees...

fucked up terrifying

Hey! I love this video...such excellent guitaring. I actually just put out a video of myself performing a one minute long shredding-style guitar solo that I wrote. Check it out on my channel! :)

In the weeks following the Mt. St. Helen explosion, extremely hot gases continued to blow out through the vein. The extreme heat melted the glacier and as the water ran down the mountain it mixed with soils to become mud (can become hotter than can water without evaporating). The mud picked up aggregates & other solid objects on its way down the mountain, making it extremely abrasive

The great volume of mud, combined with its velocity & extreme heat & abrasiveness, caused an event that occurred in one afternoon. During which, a canyon 1/40th the size of Grand Canyon was carved through solid strata

This rare phenomena was witnessed and officially recorded by Geologists working on site. It is evidence which proves that, required is simply a catastrophe 40 times larger than the one at Mt. St. Helen and the Grand Canyon can be carved in short time

Not thousands of years, but merely days!

If Grand Canyon was slowly carved by water from the Colorado river, then the entire canyon should have a surface that is rounded & slippery smooth...such as river rocks within mountain streams. In fact, the canyon's surface is extremely jagged. As would be expected if the strata were, at once, violently ripped out by a powerful force

I've been there and I must say it's very surreal. The scarred land around shows the power of nature and I would recommend seeing it in person. Very interesting.

Scary...

Ok there had to be more to it than that

ok

The guy filming must have shit his pants.

Avatar Kyoshi was pmsing on that day

its called a landslide

I was 8 years old and living in Toledo and remember this day pretty well. We didn't get any ash from that eruption but would get it in later ones. I remember that there was concern that the entire chain of volcanoes in the area would blow. I now live in the shadow of Mt Rainier and hope it doesn't go any time in the near future.

Helen said one day "don't be shy about yourselves, we won't even displace our aspects beyond our own imagination". This now makes even more sense to me.

omg its beautifull

That is

Nul

no. Actual video is monochrome black and white, and the camera took one picture every 1.5 seconds. This has been colorized and there is some interpolation between real frames. But it's still neat.

This actual video?

A lifelong WA resident, I was 6 years old when the mountain blew. I vaguely remember the first eruption, but have vivid memories of the second eruption over Memorial Day weekend. We were hours away from home, at a hotel. Got up at 9:30 a.m., and it was pitch black outside the windows (ash). TV news told the public to stay home, don't drive. My dad decided to drive. It was like driving in a blizzard, couldn't see two feet in front of the car - 8 hours to get home. I'll never forget it.

this is taken from the Mt. St Helens erupting podcast!

YA

I live 20 miles away from the mountain. Although i wasn't alive during the eruption my dad was, when my dad was in high school he and his friends would drive up to Harry's place and swim in the lake below the mountain.

putochop

If I'm not mistaken these were snapped in rapid succession by an eye witness to the eruption. His wife / partner convinced him to run after the last one.