#MSH45 | April 6, 1980 (Back on track!)
And on the seventh day of the week, Easter Sunday, let there be cloud cover and quiet.
Heavy snow blanketed Mount St. Helens. Visibility was low. Scientists called the ash-and-steam bursts “insignificant.”
But the ground still rumbled.
And on the seventh day of the week, Easter Sunday, let there be cloud cover and quiet.
Heavy snow blanketed Mount St. Helens. Visibility was low. Scientists called the ash-and-steam bursts “insignificant.”
But the ground still rumbled.
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At 3:26 p.m., a sharp quake—magnitude 4.4—pitched the earth and triggered an avalanche.
“Okay, I’ve felt one!” cried a reporter. “Now get me out of here!”
But colleague Dwight Crandell warned: “Mount St. Helens has done so many different things… the only thing it hasn’t done is blow itself apart.”