Mount St Helens First Reports - Late March 1980 | KATU In The Archives
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2024
- A selection of the first few stories detailing the volcanic activity of Mt St Helens in March 1980, months before the mountain would fully erupt.
0:00 - The first earthquakes - Stan Wilson reports
2:15 - Inside the command post - David Jackson reports
4:45 - Aerial views of eruption plumes - Robin Anderson reports
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These old news stories are always fascinating in retrospect. The scientists were clearly worried, but they were very muted in their assessments because they were afraid to rock the boat. There was simply too much pressure from Weyerhauser and the local residents to allow business as usual to go on. Meanwhile the government took their muted assessments as Gospel and failed to close off a larger area around the mountain.
This video was a great find. I haven't seen too much pre eruption.
Dr David Johnston was the one who landed on the Volcano and got the sample.
The initial phreatic explosions would tell us now that there was a danger, that hot magma was not very far below the surface if it was causing ground water to flash into high pressure steam and blowing holes in the mountain. I did not get to see any of these broadcasts, although we lived east of Salem, OR. I was working in Peru and did not get back to the US until October. We didn't even get the news of the eruption until July, when one of the guys from Portland received the newspapers in the mail from his parents.
People complained and moaned that they wanted to go to their property and that the government was to controlling and overstepping because nothing was going to happen. Then it blows and those same people criticized the government for not making the safety area bigger.😅 We had never experienced anything like that in modern times nor have we since, those geologists had no idea how powerful it was going to be and how much damage it would cause. The scary thing is that this was most likely a small one in comparison to others that happened in the past.
Beautiful yet deadly danger below that hill
I remember Stan Wilson at KATU, but I have no recollection of Robin Anderson way back then.