Mount St. Helens Disintegrates in Enormous Landslide

[@Markus_Andrew]

For those who may not be aware, the video of the mountainside sliding at 1:17 is partially animated - sort of. The photographer at 0:55 (Keith Ronnholm) took a series of still photos, each several seconds apart, and years later a graphics crew used CG software to "fill in the frames" between Ronnholm's photos to stitch together this smooth timelapse. It's a remarkable job which gives a real-time impression of the devastating scale of the eruption.

[@kashutosh9132]

Thnks for explaining Bcuz the video was looking CGI so I thought this video must be a prank

[@cisium1184]

Yeah, it looked doctored.

[@statik47]

To my knowledge there is no actual video footage of the eruption ever recorded. I lived in the vicinity of where this happened. I was 4 years old at the time. I remember being scared out of my mind to the point that I couldn't even sleep some nights. I remember one time my mom came into my room to check on me and I could hear her whisper to my dad I think he's finally asleep. To which I replied I'm still awake! Another time I remember finally falling asleep when it started to get light outside. When the eruption did occur I remember it snowing volcanic ash everywhere as if it were a heavy snow storm. I remember cars getting stranded everywhere because back then most cars used carburetors which were getting clogged with ash.

[@Markus_Andrew]

@@statik47 Thanks for sharing that story, that must have been frightening for a little kid at the time. I live in Australia. There are no active volcanoes here at all and apart from the very, very occasional earth tremor, this country is almost completely seismically inactive. I can't imagine what it must have been like to experience such an event, especially at such a young age!

[@stevesmith2171]

I was wondering why I had only seen stills of that. Thanks for the info.

[@raylast3873]

„It seemed like a perfectly safe place.“ Morgan Freeman narrating: But it wasn‘t safe.

[@UserName-dt3kc]

I can hear him saying it

[@derp8575]

lol!

[@clarencebayer79]

More like Ron Howard with the Arrested Development narration.

[@Jimmyupadhyay]

I literally heard him say that in my head when i was reading your comment.

[@raylast3873]

@@Jimmyupadhyay that‘s because he was actually saying it the whole time. Morgan Freeman narrates every epically dangerous event.

[@covertguy1575]

My grandparents lived in Battleground, just south of Mt. St. Helens. We were up actually looking at it when she unloaded. My grandfather’s exact words not five minutes before she blew was, “I wonder if she blows today..?” I was 12 years old. It’s still one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.

[@comicguy4624]

What. The. Your Grandfather is a demi-god holy shit.. maybe an Earth Bender

[@EfecanYSL]

@@comicguy4624 you mean grandfather.

[@comicguy4624]

@@EfecanYSL oops yea autocorrect, ty

[@duncanschwebel7264]

Yooooo, I live in Battleground

[@bluesap7318]

I remember learning about it on the internet at around 2012-2013

[@InternetGravedigger]

The photo at 0:27 was of David A. Johnston, a vulcanologist who was only 10 miles away when the eruption happened 13 hours after this photo. He was the first to report the eruption, before it killed him. There was also a photographer named Robert Landsberg who was also a few miles away when it happened. He realized he was already dead, it just hadn't reached him yet, so he rewound the pictures he'd taken of the eruption, put the camera back in it's case and into his backpack, then lay on top of his pack to protect the film as much as possible. This allowed his pictures to actually be developed and provide documentation of the actual eruption to geologists.

[@HelterCas]

Damn... he really made the best of it huh

[@septarria]

That's... kind of heroic

[@cyrax94]

R.I.P. to those poor brave souls. I know it happened years before I was born, but it still sucks to hear about people passing like that.

[@luciaqiao]

So heroic for both of them. Thank you for sharing this information.

[@nozyspy4967]

Where can one find those photos?

[@chrisharmon1985]

Mount St. Helen: " I'm just gonna stretch out. Had a long day."

[@cirious1703]

It's been a long eon

[@AllenHanPR]

More like it's been a long millenium.

[@JantomPlayzGamez]

*shits vigorously*

[@jacob1931]

@@JantomPlayzGamez 😂 why?

[@poodle5421]

@@JantomPlayzGamez ahh shucks, my ass fell ofg

[@cyrushyram5673]

I watched it all from my parents back field. I was five years old and it's still by far the most memorable and incredible experience I've had with the power of nature.

[@cltracy2921]

Where did you live back then? We could see the cloud from my front yard, a few miles west of Chehalis. I was 6 years old at the time.

[@johnshafer7214]

@@cltracy2921 I have friends from Chehalis, Washington. I live in Wisconsin and was three years old at the time but remember the event.

[@robertmoir-vj1kq]

Cyrus Hyrum if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things I saw Mt.Saint Helen s in full for the last time in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest

[@robertmoir-vj1kq]

@@cltracy2921 if I had seen the eruption myself I would have thought I was just seeing things in February 1980 on a visit to The Pacific Northwest I saw Mt. Saint Helen s in full for the last time

[@darcybrummett7004]

Cyrus Hyram I’m going to age myself but I was 13 when this happened.

[@devonalford3401]

1:08 him: “one of the largest landslides in recorded history” me: “bruh that’s only a few pebbl- oh shit...”

[@Ahonya666]

Yes...oh shit...It was like a half mountain 😱 That would be so scary to film

[@tzeege]

*1:14

[@SH3ZR3X]

🤣🤣🤣

[@marcelinodarren10]

Bruh not gonna lie it looked like a poor animation for a second as it stretch

[@sslingo]

@DontFuckWithUnicorns so you're stupid?

[@rat7099]

Man, imagine if something like that was captured with modern microphones and cameras, it would be more terrifying than it already is, but if you were actually there it would be insane to look at.

[@patrickdoyle9369]

It would be the last thing you ever looked at.. Yeah man it looks like the mountains gonna blow, the mountain you say ? Yeah the volcano man its gonna blow real soon.. I think i'll go up there for a look.. LOL. What a complete and utter moron.

[@tonyrowland9216]

this is made from a group of photos from about 17 miles away.

[@TheLiamster]

“Mount St Helens is about to blow up and it’s gonna be fine, swell day.”

[@Cowmilker98]

Took longer than expected to find a Bill comment

[@theomcintosh]

I'M RIDING A PONY!!🦄🌞

[@fernando47180]

INTO THE SUNSET 🌅

[@objectivelytheworst1221]

Wonder if that gift shop is still there...

[@EPIXISCOOL]

“Everything’s GREEN and GOLD” 🟢 🔔

[@overratedwood]

0:52 I actually sometimes still think that 1980s is around 20 years ago. When in reality its around 40 years from now...

[@kookiemonster6035]

Crazy how time flies

[@alyssaherdrich649]

😥😥😥

[@razzberry4756]

me too, and I was born in ‘99 lmao

[@thebestjisungista7055]

Me too

[@papaaustin1170]

I do the same thing lol

[@ANKITYADAV-nv9wv]

Everybody gangsta until the mountain starts walking away

[@BlueSky......]

everybody gangsta until i show up

[@litrally6973]

isaac douget you’re not really intimidating

[@BlueSky......]

@@litrally6973 probably millions of people are on the same level...of intelligence

[@BlueSky......]

@Mood - reading youtube comments intimidates me sometimes, but do they make 20 videos taunting the internet?

[@tornadochaser7226]

*sliding away

[@catthatlooksatyoufunny7377]

Wow, I've never seen something like this before, i didn't even knew it was possible, part of the mountain just slides off it's both horrifying and amazing to see

[@talkadelics]

Right lol f mountains lol

[@oogabooga6183]

@@talkadelics 😂😂😂

[@hobomike6935]

1:20 “woah… well, it’s not THAT bad. I’m sure the locals survived. 1:42 *oh.*

[@raisin4406]

“And you will see the mountains and think them solid, but they shall pass away as the passing away of the clouds. The Work of Allah, Who perfected all things, verily! He is Well-Acquainted with what you do” [an-Naml 27:88]. Allah can blast and scatter the largest and biggest of mountains if He wills, which is what will happen on the Day of Judgement. So return to your Lord and repent before there comes a day where the eyes will stare in horror.

[@migsyp4292]

You're mum's a mountain! DOOOO SUMMIN!

[@JustDaZack]

"If you can't go to the mountain, the mountain must come to you."

[@TVAProject]

Lmao this comment is under rated

[@Bitterbal05]

In mother Russia you dont go to mountain, mountain goes to you

[@tommyperez6824]

Lol have you gotten the ad for the drink

[@retardman5193]

In Australia, you don't go to the mountains. The mountains stay there.

[@snek3675]

Putin was probably in the area

[@atable2505]

Friendly reminder that everyone was warned to stay away for weeks and some people just brushed it off

[@sammencia7945]

56 people simply vanished. Bodies never found.

[@mpcrauzer]

I remember have watching about when you feel something is wrong and need to get out of the area, and in that episode, a father and his son was camping in the area of the Mont, the kid feel something bad because he was Very close to nature, so they Go home and the mont explode moment after they get the roda for their home

[@sammencia7945]

Actually the Red Zone had few deaths. Truman, some geologists. This was _much_ worse than expected, lateral blast not taken into account. Many died who were 20 MILES away - thought to be 100% safe. Scymanky for one. His 3 coworkers died.

[@ramona7877]

No one seemed to take it seriously, I lived in St Helens Oregon at the time

[@TheSignatureK]

Sounds like typical United States citizens to me. Especially like those that had block parties during the pandemic last year.

[@TheFreshTrumpet]

Yo my jaw just dropped, half the damn mountain slid?? How is this only ONE of the biggest landslides in history i’m sprinting to google rn lol

[@bigguy7353]

It was the eruption in 1980. Why the idiot who posted this called it a landslide is a mystery.

[@OwMeEd]

@@bigguy7353 Well... because it was a landslide caused by an eruption. Most tsunamis are caused by underwater earthquakes, but the tsunami is still a tsunami. Edit: Correction; the order of events at St Helens seems to have been: Earthquake -> Landslide -> Eruption, meaning it was a landslide before it was an eruption!

[@ET-Gamer]

Look up Doggerland, it use to be a land connecting England to main land Europe but was flooded by a massive underwater landslide on the coast of Norway.

[@foxthefox1594]

They two halves got a divorce

[@Kamal_AL-Hinai]

In recorded history*

[@BrianJWood-dl3dv]

I was in Victoria B.C when this happened. We are 200 miles away. I was in my bedroom and there was a huge rumble. The whole house seemed to have been hit by a truck or something. I got out out of my bedroom and my sister had also left her bedroom. She looked really scared. I thought it might have been a nuclear bomb. I wont forget that day.

[@duderama6750]

It was a bomb.

[@suewalksthebluffs]

I was in bed in Victoria too. The booms scared me and I thought could it be a bomb, or maybe just naval exercises across the harbour, but there had never been any before, and so early on a Sunday morning? that didn’t make sense… then the curtains really billowed inward, twice, on a windless day with the window partially open. Very spooky. Then next day cleaning all the volcanic dust off my car. I try not to think about what Yellowstone will be like “😢”

[@jackgraham3393]

Live in the Yakima valley. I was planting corn that day, it never was able to come up thru all the ash. Disked the field to mix in the ash and replanted. The ash was so rich, had a bumper crop. A lot of machinery was ruined because the ash was so fine and sharp. The next winter made several trip up there to snowmobile. You were on six feet or more of snow, all above the blown down timber. Made a number of trips before it all regrew up. One trip we made it quite a way up the mountain itself. Like many others won’t forget that day.

[@raosthegray7090]

I’m so glad people are sharing their stories about it in this comment section, I’ve been very interested in them

[@zacharyrollick6169]

Thanks, very cool.

[@1zz64]

Hey I live there too

[@rezz578]

Anybody else read this like poetry?

[@yankees29]

That volcanic ash enriches soil big time. Thanks for the cool story. That’s incredible.

[@josie4065]

The sheer amount of energy it took to move one side of a mountain is mind boggling.

[@Ascertivon]

My initial thought was about the motion of the earth around it! I wonder if it caused an earthquake or a significant amount of wind.

[@mamacat63]

@@Ascertivon oh, it definitely caused an earthquake

[@juliusnepos6013]

@@mamacat63 it was

[@typ044]

@n/a No.

[@victorpradha9946]

For nature...this is all effortless. There is no exertion involved in the happening of such phenomena. Gravity constantly drives one continental shelf against another. The result in powerful earthquakes that tumble dwellings and structures that took hundreds if not thousands of hours to construct in a matter of seconds.

[@HackedUpForBarbeque]

Just so people know: This is a series of images that's had the gaps filled in with cgi. That's why it looks a little janky

[@PresidentialWinner]

Are you sure about that? Give me evidence.

[@HackedUpForBarbeque]

@@PresidentialWinner There is a video on this channel titled "photographing a catastrophic explosion at mt st helens"

[@PresidentialWinner]

@@HackedUpForBarbeque OK.

[@fatherofdragons4880]

@@HackedUpForBarbeque an eloquent answer on a KZbin comment? Now I've seen it all lol!

[@AV1ch]

@@PresidentialWinner Obvious evidence of CGI: small particles in the last shot that go straight up.

[@jackdoe552]

My father, being a true dad, took me camping at the base of Mt. St. Helens about a month before it blew. He was not particularly worried. 🤣 I was quite young, but distinctly remember seeing a large herd of elk in the forest.

[@Bprovo]

Survivor's bias.

[@jenniferraymond9766]

Your dad was an idiot

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@Bprovo No because he wasn't there during the danger to survive it

[@AhJodie]

@jackdoe552 It has been 2 years since you wrote your comment.... I loved it! I am 70 years old and was thinking about some of the things I have done with my son, as far as adventures.... so your comment was heartwarming!

[@AethernaLuxen]

That's just the dragon moving his bed sheets, don't bother him

[@meepbeep2464]

Of course we won't

[@leocastanon6194]

Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

[@leocastanon6194]

@@meepbeep2464 Will you go to Heaven when you die? Here’s a quick test: Have you ever lied, stolen, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” If you have done these things, God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart, and the Bible warns that one day God will punish you in a terrible place called Hell. But God is not willing that any should perish. Sinners broke God’s Law and Jesus paid their fine. This means that God can legally dismiss their case: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then Jesus rose from the dead, defeating death. Today, repent [turn away from your sins and don’t practice them] trust Jesus, and God will give you eternal life as a free gift. Then read the Bible daily and obey it. God will never fail you.

[@AethernaLuxen]

@@leocastanon6194 the only god im willing to worship is 4 cheese mega whopper

[@dispencermain2735]

@@leocastanon6194 ok but what does that have to do with the landslide or a dragon moving his bedsheets?

[@flashy5150]

I remember being in school and watching it erupt with my class when I was 9 years old. 1980 was a big year for crazy and bad things to happen - Mt. St Helens eruption, John Lennon getting shot, Terry Fox running the Marathon of Hope and dying before he completed it, I got to shake his hand.

[@JayTheTruth]

I’m young so I never heard about terry fox dying. It’s pretty ironic tho that somebody died before finishing “the marathon of hope”😅

[@mademsoisellerhapsody]

It happened on a Sunday

[@AngryBudgiez]

happy 50th

[@syts]

@@JayTheTruth It wasn't like he dropped dead during a one day marathon - he was running across Canada to raise money for cancer research since he lost his leg to it. He made it like 4,000 miles, but his cancer relapsed and appeared in his lungs forcing him to stop. He died months later.

[@JayTheTruth]

@@syts oh okay slightly less ironic now. That’s sad

[@AlexorPwnsAll]

“Keeping an eye on an ominous growing bulge.” That’s called cancer man, gotta get that checked

[@negativeindustrial]

I hate it when people eye my bulge

[@chlorofoto]

peepee?

[@atomchild2619]

Fuck this is so hilarious 😂😂😂

[@fredjung]

That’s what she said.

[@bald_lightning]

Notices your pyroclastic flow 👉👈

[@pux0rb]

The amount of force it must have taken to move several million tons of rock so effortlessly is astounding.

[@atomicskull6405]

it's more like trillions of tons

[@danielrodriguez5165]

Dont think thats how it works. Sometimes all it takes is a butterfly

[@Arcessitor]

@@danielrodriguez5165That platitude doesn't really work since there's no such thing as a butterfly actually creating a hurricane.

[@iamhawkeye3162]

I heard that it was equivalent to like 3 Hiroshima bombs

[@StormDragon771]

It's one of those events that put human size and scope into perspective

[@kermitefrog64]

I lived in Sunnyside Washington when Mt. St. Helens made an ash of herself. That was the end of the school year and we were getting ready for graduation. When the ash cloud passed over the Yakima Valley the sun hit the ash cloud at just the right angle and it looked like a rolling river of blood.

[@shillian4770]

That’s fucking crazy

[@barsnacker]

I had a similar experience thier was a wildfire miles from where I live and the smoke traveled down the mountain pass toward our town and the sky and color outside was bloodred the town had a movie filter on it, an apocalypse, or hellfire and brimstone

[@ryanchan2358]

Was the ash red? If it was grey, it might have been pulverized lava.

[@GinoNL]

@LaughToMouth maybe it’s because English isn’t my native language, but what does it mean? I get the literal part, but not the other one.

[@thorr18BEM]

@@GinoNL , he made a pun by changing one word of a common idiom from ass to ash. (Ass being an impolite animal and ash being the volcano's so obviously he was implying the volcano was being impolite). www.google.com/search?q=idiom+make+an+ass+of+yourself

[@raysings2861]

Bill Nye: "It is known fact that it takes millions and billions of years for these kinds of geological changes to occur." Mount St. Helens: "Hold my beer!"

[@kimmyymmik]

Also bill nye... not a real scientist 😭🤣🤣

[@kimmyymmik]

Joshua Thompson huh that meme is dead and is irrelevant you dumb fuck 😂😂

[@noahzeitlin6850]

Kim En it is very much not dead, and in many places is still going strong

[@barsnacker]

Caldera*

[@justinmplayz8809]

@Joshua Thompson I put the milk in before the bowl

[@megamonkeyblaster3627]

I watched this happen from around sixty miles as the crow flies, south west. May 18th, 1980. A day and event I'll never forget.

[@jacksonfredericks7597]

I know this true cuz bro said as the crow flies he a mountaineer for sure

[@dhuckins79]

My grandparents told me that they got ashes on their car even though at the time they lived in Oregon.

[@feraxks]

I remember it as well. We were just over 80 miles SSW. Didn't hear it, but could see the ash plume going up.

[@ais5094]

@@dhuckins79 dog that shit could end north California

[@chantalfinn6173]

@@dhuckins79 I remember ash on my parents car in Canada

[@nemospence2724]

I've been fascinated by the eruption of Mount Saint Helens and the stories that surround it. From the Philippines

[@trry2543]

Parents: You’d have better luck moving a mountain Mountain:👁👄👁

[@theunderdog9353]

Mountain: Anyway, I started slidin'

[@lewis17297]

Thank you for this comment, I have laughed to death

[@netecrivernetecassassins2945]

This inspired me to become mountin 🤓

[@theunderdog9353]

@Chris Whitty Braindead response

[@hh582]

Except the kid didn’t move the mountain the mountain moved itself...

I shook my head and said " Am I really seeing this?", then a 10 foot boulder hit me in the face.

[@elenthora442]

That really did happen to a man who was about 10 miles away, his wife died of asphyxiation

[@folkwhore8322]

I got to that part when I read your comment

[@Darkasknightfall]

Guy: “I shook my head and said Am I really seeing this?” Mount St. Helens: “ok hold on I’ll show you again.”

[@SOCCER_360]

500th like

[@125steini]

news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-man-crushed-stone-1295183 You mean like that? ;)

[@katiemorrison888]

It's a wee bit more than just a land slide

[@jakealter5504]

Katie Morrison more like it’s a gigantic landslide that triggered an eruption

[@FirstLast-ny6tg]

"The public was shocked by the extent of the eruption, which had lowered the elevation of the summit by 1,313 feet (400 m), destroyed 230 square miles (596 km2) of woodland, and spread ash into other states and Canada. The lateral blast that killed Johnston started at 220 miles per hour (354 km/h) and accelerated to 670 miles per hour (1,078 km/h)." According to USGS Scientists, the top of the volcano basically became plugged and the pressure started to bulge out of the side. I think an earthquake triggered the event by loosening the ground and the pressure did the rest and ended up laterally erupting out the side of the volcano rather than straight up. Imagine how much land it would take to destroy 230 SQUARE Miles. Now imagine it is moving towards you at 670 miles per hour. That's hard to put in perspective. The cruising speed of a 747 is 570 mph. I agree. Just a land slide. LOL

[@tylerslagel5485]

It's a *MOUNTAIN SLIDE!!!!!*

[@christystewart4567]

First Last the pictures after of the mowed down trees and debris and just nothing left in some parts were unbelievable. The destruction was enormous.

[@BlackRose85789]

Can you just imagine what it was like, being on the side of the mountain and that was your way to die. That was be fucking terrifying. O_O

[@alexcosta3219]

Who's got this recommended after 11 years

[@Modestas_Stonkus]

Me

[@Hiboyboy123]

Me

[@luginess0]

Everyone, get over it

[@johnnyfoosball12]

@@luginess0 bet you’re fun at parties

[@MahkyVmedia1]

@@johnnyfoosball12 probably a blast. Doesn't seem like an idiot.

[@loknathsharma5596]

KZbin after 10 years: Maybe the people have forgotten the legendary sliding mountain......

[@fletzyproductions1190]

Ok

[@arjunadelhy7411]

Maybe US

[@StegoMan]

Totally

[@davidsilverfield835]

Yeah

[@Olympic.400]

everybodys gangsta until the whole mountain collapses

[@wendy833]

I'm in Washington state and remember sunbathing when it got cloudy. All this stuff started falling on me so I went inside. My parents were out of town towards Chewelah and weren't allowed to come home. My grandfather came and got me and explained what had happened. It was a weird thing to experience. Ash was all over everything for years.

[@whiteyfisk9769]

Black Lives Matter

[@gayled3059]

@@whiteyfisk9769 What's that got to do with this??

[@timthompson8297]

I used to,see ash on the side for the road in eastern Washington on my camping trips for years

[@wendy833]

@@timthompson8297 for sure!! I remember seeing it too.

[@jefffinkbonner9551]

This story checks out as you’d genuinely have to be from Washington to be sunbathing in mid-May lol

[@donaldbadowski290]

I remember the days leading up to and then after the eruption, the network news teams were getting interviews with scientists, park rangers, campers and a few residents. Two I remember. 1. A man who'd been camping by the mountain was buried under several feet of ash and mud when his car, traveling at 90 mph was overtaken by the mud. They know he was doing 90 because he was passed by a guy doing 110, who just made it out. 2. A guy in his 70s was interviewed about his refusal to leave. "I was born here, raised here, spent my whole life here. I ain't leaving." They found him weeks later. A rescue dog, a German Shepard, smelled him under 5 feet of mud. The rangers kept digging and digging and not finding anything. "Are you sure boy? You smell something?" And the dog kept giving all the signs. Finally they found him. The dog said "Told ya!"

[@ohmanyourecool1]

@Kasen Barrolaza Yeah dogs can talk ok. Got that?

[@scotthersey4380]

The old fellow's name was--no lie--Harry Truman! Additional fun fact: HE, not the U.S. president, was the namesake of the sheriff in Twin Peaks.

[@imthedarknight-8755]

Avoiding a volcanic landslide in a high speed car escape is the coolest story you could tell

[@donaldbadowski290]

@@imthedarknight-8755 , and the funny thing, it's true.

[@protorhinocerator142]

@Kasen Barrolaza Yes, but he said it in German.

[@Meh-2U]

25+ second ad for a video less than 2 minutes long. Makes perfect sense. Why would anyone want a reprieve.

[@okaygecko]

2024 two unskippable ads for a 50 second video😅

[@Reader999]

Mount St. Helens: "I don't feel so good..."

[@VenomShadows305]

JusticeForce End oғ тнe World this is what I came for.

[@MagicalGirlRose319]

TOO QUIZNACKING SOON!

[@aureliaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Mount St. Helens 2 mins later : "no dun do it, i am a virgin"

[@kingjohn1717]

End oғ тнe JusticeForce bahahaha #TeamThanos for the win.

[@vickiemillikan8563]

End oғ тнe JusticeForce St Helens mom is like, "Oh your fine honey!". 5 seconds later . . .

[@Jasonwolf1495]

It's at this point that you realize that mountain and the pile of sand you made at the beach are scarily similar, just on different scales. To the forces of a massive earthquake and eruption its just a bunch of little grains of rock.

[@ancientfractal2526]

As Above, So Below

[@sebastianalvarez6006]

Mother natural dont give a shit Its all the same

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@ancientfractal2526 that saying doesn’t apply

[@ancientfractal2526]

@@zzodysseuszz depends on which version you are perceiving. I use it in reference to the fact that the same processes take place at all scales in the universe, from the microscopic to the macrocosmic. In that context it very much applies to this comment.

[@zzodysseuszz]

@@ancientfractal2526 no it doesn’t. Stop using mental gymnastics to justify nonsense

[@xaiano794]

You know what I find weird? the sound effects - If you've ever seen these things for real, you'll know that it's the silence that's chilling, that it's so big that the sound hasn't even reached you yet.

[@bandolierboy1908]

the speed of sound isn't as fast as light, soundwaves take more time to travel

[@tasteewheat393]

Xaiano true af

[@michaellejeune7715]

Isaac White That was the point.

[@jordi5371]

People was there reported the silence they experienced at the very moment of the explotion

[@aiiiia9971]

Ok that's scary af...

[@torikenyon]

“Mount St. Helens is about to disintegrate in an enormous landslide, and it’s gonna be a fine swell day” -Bill Wurtz

[@Redeemedon090910]

I lived near there when I was a child remember my mom wrapping a scarf around my face from all the ash in the air as we were evacuating every time I smell sulfur it triggers a memory of that day.

[@johnwright8703]

Jeremy, I lived in Glanoma when it blew, you were close too if you remember the sulfur smell. Did you get the mud too? Thanks for sharing. I lived just 4 miles north of the blown down trees. The ground was shaking, thunder and lighting from these big bellowing dark clouds of ash. It rained down 4 inches of hot stinky smelling mud, then we had a foot of ash on top of that. It knocked out our power and we could not see the flower box out the window. 3 1/2 hours later we could see the cows still out in the pasture. Amazing they survived. If it would have blown the next day, Monday, I would be dead. It took over 4 months to get to the logging equipment where we were working.

[@GinoNL]

@@johnwright8703 that’s crazy. Thanks for sharing yourself.

[@jackstarnes8714]

The mountain really said “Aah- ah- ahchew *dies* “

[@thomasswaney5721]

*ACHEW* *HEAD EXPLODES*

[@fletzyproductions1190]

Ok

[@milanvo3721]

😐

[@kieraareik.266]

@@milanvo3721 😁

[@Praise___YaH]

HERE is Our TRUE Savior YaH The Heavenly FATHER HIMSELF was Who they Crucified for our sins and “HERE IS THE PROOF” From the Ancient Semitic Scroll: "Yad He Vav He" is what Moses wrote, when Moses asked YaH His Name (Exodus 3) Ancient Semitic Direct Translation Yad - "Behold The Hand" He - "Behold the Breath" Vav - "Behold The NAIL"

[@angelsaxon6499]

Both my parents watched this unfold and remember it distinctly. Mum was in school and my dad, bein the mad lad he kinda is, watched relatively closely, but not close enough to be in danger. Absolutely unbelievable, and even after the collapse the mountain is still a sight to see today. Summitting it back in 2013 is a fond memory of mine :3

[@OdysseyABMS]

i cringed reading this and proceeded to regurgitate my breakfast after seeing that pfp

[@MisterJohnDoe]

Interesting icon you have there.

[@gerarddip]

BASED PFP

[@angelsaxon6499]

@Burr Anderson whoa. Not sure if I've seen that, but I will note it for now 👀

[@Niever]

So he was like twenty miles from it? That's safe bit still could be danger. Anyone believing this guy needs to look at how far all the debris, ash and smoke travelled and how fast.

[@Ksweetpea]

If you've never been to see the mountain, and have an opportunity to, go see it. The viewpoint just below the visitor center is a great place to really take in the scale of the mountain. It doesn't look nearly as large as it is especially from the south. Staring down the barrel of the gun, so to speak, it can truly be appreciated

[@loopthetube]

I finally went after 40 years. The visitors center we went to was Johnston Ridge. It is the ridge David Johnsron was sitting on.

[@mitesh2422]

Mountain : The camera was on me. "So I had to do something"

[@scottleighton9149]

"So I just started blastin"

[@BrokenCurtain]

We're so lucky to have those pictures.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

Mount St. Helens is feeling crazy and adventurous, that's the reason that it's so special

[@jessecooper5900]

And it's filled with music

[@abhishekreddy2425]

And it dreams of *puppies*

[@improvingguitarist1595]

Ponies

[@snivylink2119]

and it takes no answers

[@anoon-]

Bill wurtz chose good with this mountain.

[@Ben-bg2lp]

Thanks to KZbin, this delaying interrupting the main content is going away. This is why Daily dose of internet is so popular.

[@progenitor_amborella]

There’s still a pretty popular thing on here called hitting the 8 minute mark.

[@Ben-bg2lp]

@@XZ-III 13 million subscribers would disagree

[@hadeskiller1]

Maybe 13 million people just enjoy bad content

[@Ben-bg2lp]

@@hadeskiller1 Or, and hear me out, it's just you who don't like it.

[@MonoXZY]

How is it bad content it’s literally the coolest video all wrapped in one.

[@jacknewman9256]

I was on a school bus with classmates on a field trip. Ash started falling, the day turned pitch black and we were stranded for 3 days. No chaperones, just a busload of kids and the band director. I'm thankful for the Red Cross to this day.

[@cascadia8012]

Having lived in Washington my entire life... I actually guess I didn't realize people in other parts of the world aren't aware of the insane volcano mountain that literally blew its top. It's a beautiful snowy mount right now, I can't imagine not seeing it every day.

[@Liam-zf6jc]

Never seen a mountain melt before. I don’t know what I’m gonna do with this knowledge now

[@cbisme6414]

Watch La Palma 🌋

[@perrymarshall8584]

Never go hiking? 🤣

[@howardrobinson4938]

Why not saw?

[@peachikiru]

when the mountain face started to slide i was like "ok surely theyre exaggerating, it cant be that big of a landslide" and then half the mountain fell

[@les4767]

I wasn't old enough to be someone who could say, "I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot." However, I was old enough to remember where I was and what I was doing when Mt. St. Helens erupted. I was in Woodinville, Washington, north of the mountain about 130 miles away. I was visiting my cousins and we were in the den watching tv when there was a light tremor and the news flash came on showing the eruption. We sat shocked by the awesome display of natural power and chaos that came on the screen. Luckily, we missed the worst of the ash cloud due to wind patterns, but we did get a light dusting over the course of the week. Mt. St. Helens was the main topic of interest for the rest of the year and then some. A year later, I visited Castlerock, Washington just 20 miles from the mountain for a festival the town held for surviving the event. It was quite sobering.

[@banjohappy]

I remember where I was when Kennedy was shot. I was in 7th grade gym class and Mr. Charcola came in and said "The president has been shot. School is being dismissed. Go to your lockers. Get your belongings. The buses are waiting outside to take you home." Nobody said he had died. A girl on the bus was crying, saying he was dead and we all ridiculed her. "They didn't say he was dead, just that he'd been shot." But she was right and we were wrong.

[@IvanLDiaz]

Nobody: Mt. Helen: aight imma head out

[@ATalkingBadger]

Stop with that stupid "Nobody:" comment, you unoriginal moron.

[@sillygoose635]

@@ATalkingBadger Shut the fuck up, you uptight dipshit.

[@somehaloguy9372]

Nobody: ATalkingBadger: *people who use this meme are morons and idiots because meme usage totally shows people's IQ levels and I'm not just some triggered douche*

[@danielfitri97]

@@somehaloguy9372 nice, hahaha

[@sillygoose635]

@@somehaloguy9372 Exactly.

[@sharonmccann2902]

I remember it well. I lived in Southern California at the time and we had ash falling and blowing. Live footage was on the news. A few years later I went to the site and the devastation was horrible. Whole hillside of timber were flattened as if they were matchsticks. Amazing...

[@TheKennethECarper]

I remember it as well. I lived in Portland, OR and I remember going outside with my parents. There was a thick layer of ash in our front yard and on top of our car. It was so deep that I thought it had snowed. I was only five years old and remember trying to make a snowball out of the ash and my mother forcing me to throw it down. I wish I had saved some of it. I had a ball of volcanic ash in my hand, a literal piece of geological history, and I threw it away.

[@shayaankhan2578]

Was it a landslide or landslide due to volcano?

[@DerpASherpa117]

@@shayaankhan2578 the magma chamber couldn't properly vent excess gas and molten rock, so the northern side of the mountain literally bulged out as this gas built up more and more from the magma moving underneath. Finally, it collapsed under its own weight after a small earthquake, which then led to the lateral blast that sterilized the countryside for miles.

[@darrenheadrick3669]

@ Sharon McCann I was 14 years old, living Detroit when this happened. The blast was so powerful from Mt. St. Helens that Detroit got some of the ash from the eruption.

[@Magnum_Wolf]

I wasn't born yet (1989) when this happened, but I wish I couldn't seen it. I live in Southern Colorado and people said that it just got a little hazy over here.

[@bartholomewoballs3351]

Mount St Helens said: “My main goal is to blow up and then act like I don’t know nobodaeee”

[@sighduck9789]

Yawk Yawk Yawk yawk yawk

[@gastropods7716]

LMAO

[@Rick_King]

I remember this event well. My car, in Southern California, was covered with ash from the volcano. But I wish you folks would include closed captioning in your videos, for us old folks!

[@nekroneko]

when you finally let off that belt buckle after being out for a big meal and you're back home.

[@Slouchytits]

Homer Simpson type beat

[@dopplesoddner2899]

Respect to the guys who worked for many days without sleep to capture this 2 mins of incredible footage.

[@andrewward8867]

Man its easy to see why early civilization clung to mystical beliefs of gods and spirits, cause this shit is mind blowing.

[@MrRyan-wu4jx]

Too many still do. And they’ve never even seen a volcano.

[@rokulus7910]

@@MrRyan-wu4jx Yeah I was just going to say, billions of people still believe in mystical gods and spirits.

[@tommydawson7147]

I Garantee you theres a Power beyond this. I use imagination to manifest All the time and Happens, even the crazy stuff.

[@landonspain193]

My Nana, who lives in Southwest Virginia, says she remembers a very light dusting of ash on her car after the eruption. It's scary how much volcanic material is blasted into the atmosphere when one of these dormant giants explodes with rage.

[@mcloathin9684]

Now imagine a gigaton nuke

[@Rebecca-1111]

Even had dust in Michigan.

[@CortexNewsService]

And what's really scary is, as eruptions go, this was midsized. Not that huge, relatively speaking

[@thesleepycookie1381]

No matter how inspirational it is, I will never look at the saying "make the mountains move" the same way again 💀

[@KENSHIROez3260]

Must be strangely disturbing to say it

[@T3RRORGL1TCH]

Here before the seventyth like

[@thesleepycookie1381]

@@T3RRORGL1TCH Haha that's a new one. I didn't even know I got like, past 3 likes 😅

[@T3RRORGL1TCH]

@@thesleepycookie1381 yeah, KZbin is Messy I noticed

[@siriuslykookie4835]

Mount St. Helens is ‘bout to blow up and it’s gonna be a fine swell day

[@fishiefish6179]

Everything’s gonna fall down to the ground and turn gray

[@sci_pain3409]

i was looking for this comment

[@colinmoreillon5970]

@@fishiefish6179 all of my friends family and animals probably going to run away

[@seantheshimp5296]

but me, im feeling curious so i think i just might stay

[@cyrilabapo2257]

@@seantheshimp5296 the Dow Jones just fell down to zero and it's gonna be a *fine swell day*

[@barrioscorona215]

That's just TOPH doing her thing. 🤜🪨

[@cameronlikesbugs]

i am the greatest earth bender in the world

[@MANNYMODS]

Lol

[@Blagno4]

Is your mom shaking the streets

[@okramoffacebook1381]

This is Toph gering her thing done

[@erick-gmz]

I was just about to comment Kyoshi lmao

[@victordelima766]

If this were me my glasses would have chosen this moment to place themselves in an obscure corner of my jacket as I fumble around in my myopic frenzy.

[@james5637]

1:15 is the section you're looking for, and no they don't let you see the whole clip 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@danevertt3210]

I grew up, seeing this in textbooks. I’m pretty sure it’s not actually a real video but a quick burst of photos. I’m pretty sure they spliced the photos together and did some great editing to create the video clip

[@jesse406]

@@danevertt3210 that’s what a video is

[@danevertt3210]

@@jesse406 you aren’t understanding, good job simpleton

[@MrFolky77]

@@danevertt3210 😅😅😅

[@roseandstem8054]

There's an entire clip of it exploding? I've only ever seen what we saw here.

[@Jvha761]

Just imagine the immense power behind all that. It's amazing and scary at the same time

[@frankyymilkyy9001]

I also can imagine I have $1000000000000

[@commoq3764]

@@frankyymilkyy9001 ?

[@EkardRimidalv]

@@frankyymilkyy9001 I wish I did too, I have too much rn

[@hobomike6935]

@@frankyymilkyy9001 facts right here

[@Cris-bj7ee]

@@EkardRimidalv Nobody understands the pain of being a multitrillionaire.

[@hairydogstail]

We got ash all the way in Montana. The clouds looked so weird and ash fell everywhere. It was like living through fall out after WW3 occurred. The next day everything was grey like watching life in black and white..

[@stephenjokela]

We had ash fall all the way in New Brunswick, Canada. 3500 miles away. Crazy.

[@Internet_Canuck]

My Grandpa woke up one day in Alberta Canada to find ash covering his Car which he had to scrape off before heading off to Work for the day.

[@hairydogstail]

@Phuckofftopuss Yup, I still have my bottles of ash LOL. On our logging jobs we had ash fly out of trees for many years after the eruption...

[@ruby71406]

i see st. helens every day from my neighborhood, and i've visited it quite a few times on field trips and stuff. it's insane how beautiful it is despite the devastation it faced. it's so green and lush in the spring, and the ape caves are so strange and fascinating. i wanna go camp up there someday.

[@ivysaursen]

so my question is: why did this show up on everyone’s recommended ten years later?

[@Hessonite_Dragon_Helen]

I don’t know

[@chrisar100]

The mystery of youtube algorithms

[@MikalOdom]

Algorithm

[@BigWheel.]

Its cool

[@dislike__button]

You rang?

[@beeler123]

That doesn’t even look real...it’s like a sand castle falling apart but on a massive scale

[@p1o_nutella650]

@Krust Brate stop being dumb plz

[@NPJGlobal]

@@p1o_nutella650 other people have said the animation was cgi. I mean it doesn't look like 1980s footage

[@Rendell001]

I remember seeing the individual photos of the landslide / eruption and i think they have stitched them together and colorised them with CG. That said, it still looks absolutely terrifying...

[@iwanttocomplain]

Thing is. Why so much ash? I mean, scientifically.

[@Rendell001]

@@iwanttocomplain I’d think that at least half of it is soil and rock from the landslide, blown into the air by the force of the explosion.

[@thebosstre]

Can you imagine what it must have been like to watch that happen live?

[@davidchalmers2504]

I would be like "CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP OH JEZZ IT'S COMING AT ME!"

[@andrewlabat9963]

@@davidchalmers2504 Yep.. All good till you realize it's NOT.. LOL..

[@davidchalmers2504]

@@andrewlabat9963 What do you mean?

[@davidchalmers2504]

@KIRBY That footage was taken from about 10 miles away. The pyroclastic flows extended up to 13 miles away. The man who shot this (Keith Ronholm) took other photos of the wall of ash barreling toward him. He barely got out of there alive.

[@andrewlabat9963]

@@davidchalmers2504 What do I mean. Ever watched the documentary on Mount St. Helens? Several thought they were good, until they realized they were not. The level of power released was way more than many thought.

[@ElSantoLuchador]

I was 11 or 12 and mowing the lawn in Eastern Washington when it went off. The sky got gray and ash came down eventually covering the lawn with about an inch of ash. Some places in E Wa (Ritzville, for example) had ash on the ground for several years. It was hysterical to me that people were actually selling it.

[@vadenk4433]

I just saw some ash from St Helens in the last month. There’s still drifts of it out towards Electric city. I remember seeing it every once in awhile growing up cause it blew just 2 years before I was born. I’ve also seen it when tearing up carpet in old houses. The ash is so fine it sifts down through the carpet to the floors

[@firstnamelastname2552]

@robert jackson tell revive negligence attic gun ant achievement authorise reproduction diplomat admit ban surround demand integrated suburb field experience

[@Boobo_000]

???

[@tony3313]

I went mountain biking there several years ago and to see the wide swath of destruction miles wide was eerie. Definitely a vibe there to this day.

[@GoldNargacuga]

Mount Saint Helens: "aight time to streeeeeeeeeeeeeetch"

[@Solid_Snake99]

You fvcking dumbass have some respect people died

[@oracle7858]

Solid_Snake chill everyone jokes on the internet it’s not like being in person

[@manifestationsofasort]

@Solid_Snake bro you make Minecraft videos stfu

[@EnderSpy358]

@@Solid_Snake99 you shouldn't be on the Internet if you can't take jokes, this comment wasn't even remotely offensive

[@Solid_Snake99]

@@EnderSpy358 STFU i'll fvck you up

[@tufab3494]

Thank God somebody filmed this.

[@giles852002]

No one expected it to erupt sideways & it caught so many people off guard.

[@TheOtherGuys2]

Why can't any video or documentary just show the whole thing?? It's always "Here, this is the actual thing you're here to see. But instead, let's look at a guy talking." Maybe there isn't more, but I don't know, because every documentary cuts away as if no viewer actually wants to see the thing they're watching. Same deal with any historical footage. Hindenburg, WWII, Nuclear bomb tests... Is there some long standing US law that says it's illegal for a historical film clip to be played in full for public viewing?

[@Redghost1172]

I agree with you cause we want to see what the eruption looks like not just some guy

[@TheOtherGuys2]

One of the worst examples was a video I saw of 'Most powerful tornado on record' or something. And the two minute video literally contained about 15 seconds of a tornado starting to form, and the rest was two guys watching the video on a screen we can't see. It'd be like sitting down in a theater to watch an audience watch a movie.

[@angela-sanders]

TheOtherGuys2 I've only seen it work for Mystery Science Theater :) cdn.indiewire.com/dims4/INDIEWIRE/c17f6c9/2147483647/thumbnail/680x478/quality/75/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fd1oi7t5trwfj5d.cloudfront.net%2F9b%2Ff353a0c07411e19f68123138165f92%2Ffile%2Fmst3k-06272012.jpg

[@littledreamersinc]

I completely agree. I've been searching for the same thing.

[@signorelli21]

exactly what I was thinking, this is the 3rd or 4th video I've watched on mt st helens and its all the same crap about the lead up to the eruption and whatnot, like I already know WTF happened I just want to watch the actual eruption.

[@OutyMan]

This is a really smooth, enhanced and slightly augmented morph animation of the eruption. No video footage of these moments exists--Only a series of photographs. A quick technical note in the presentation explaining this would have been appropriate and educational.

[@calvincameron354]

This wasn't an eruption though it was a Landslide

[@septarria]

It was both.

[@heatherreadsreddit8579]

@@calvincameron354 The eruption caused the landslide.

[@canamrider07]

I played college football and our school played WSU in Pullman in September of 1980. The field under the turf was really hard. I was told the ash reigned down on the field, they tried to hose it off and it basically turned to concrete.

[@ForageGardener]

I have looked across the river at this mountain every clear day for my entire life. Its incredible how massive a mountain can be. Its like 80 miles away as the bird flies, but looks like its in your livingroom.

[@adamofblastworks1517]

As the bird flies? What does that phrase mean? I've never heard it before.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

@@adamofblastworks1517 "As the bird/crow flies" means that it's 80 miles in a straight line through the air, as opposed to 80 miles on foot (or vehicle) going around or over obstacles.

[@ForageGardener]

@@adamofblastworks1517as said below :) Bird flies in a straight line and arrives quicker, this mountain is a lot further by road :)

[@adamofblastworks1517]

Thanks guys. I would have just assumed you meant 80 miles away in a straight line anyway in this case.

[@AllenHanPR]

Imagine being the only two people to witness this live, it would be like you're the main characters in an end of world movie.

[@gengis737]

Well those days we are all actors in a pandemic movie

[@Baconatorz]

The guy that they only had photos of didnt make it.

[@unamusedcaveman9235]

@@gengis737 Nah, nobody cares about the fake china virus

[@booty_hunter4207]

@@unamusedcaveman9235 caveman moment

[@gengis737]

@@unamusedcaveman9235 You did not believe in Mount St Helens explosion, until it happened.

[@bread7865]

"Don't say it." "Why not?" "Just don't. Plea-" "MOUNT ST. HELENS IS ABOUT TO BLOW UP AND IT'S GONNA BE A FINE SWELL DAY"

[@mistermoee]

but its gonna fall down to the ground and turn grey

[@invisible9445]

I live near mount saint helens :]

[@mamacat63]

@@invisible9445 I still have a jar of the ash from that day.

[@MaxPower-k7d]

This proves that it doesn't take millions of years to make canyons and change the landscape. There is a section of this debris avalanche that scientists call the miniature Grand Canyon. You have to rethink what you think you know or have been taught in school. Open your heart and your eyes.

[@MaxPower-k7d]

Find HIM yet?

[@donwinslow522]

I remember this day well. It was two days before my tenth birthday. I was with my dad and siblings on the freeway, on the way to downtown Seattle. Traffic came to a dead-stop. Many people got out of their cars to take pictures of the eruption. I couldn't believe how massive the mushroom cloud was.

[@jessehutchings]

The biggest natural disaster to hit Washington before I was born. The footage is incredible, but we could probably never imagine how shocking it looked to see it first hand with full depth perception of our own eyes

[@mrloop1530]

You being born was a bigger natural disaster?

[@michaeldover]

Bugs Bunny: "Whatcha doin'?" Marvin the Martian: "Oh, I'm going to blow up the Earth." Me watching cartoons on 18 May 1980: "My gosh, he went and done it!"

[@butterscotchpi3395]

The earth creature has stolen the P-36 space modulator!

[@jeroenjansen2709]

What I don't understand is that they could have anticipated that the volcano would erupt sideways, so there was a real danger for the position they were in despite complying with the official minimum distance

[@willcook1612]

my favorite thing about videos like this is you’re viewing it to see what it says it is a video of. and then the camera goes to a person who saw it and gives you their thoughts and feelings on it.

[@ramona7877]

I was twenty and lived just outside of St Helens Oregon during that time. Hardly anyone around us seemed to take it seriously, as if all the scientists were completely wrong. I stood in a field and watched when it erupted, the atom bomb shaped cloud and loud earth shaking rumble. We were fortunate and only had a couple inches of ash both times.

[@thethirdman225]

That’s the price of ignoring science.

[@duderama6750]

Atom bomb. Not wrong at all.

[@CCPwillfall01]

My dad got to see this with his own eyes when he was training in the army.

[@comet1227]

Did he try it with someone else's first?

[@GinoNL]

@@comet1227 try what?

[@comet1227]

@@GinoNL too see

[@comet1227]

@matthew scoles thank god someone got my humor 😏

[@abhisheklama1393]

My dad saw it through the eyes that he'd stolen from his brother. That gave him Eternal Mangeykou so he saw it in ultra HD.

[@raikitsunagi]

Hello in a 2022 edition of "how is it in my recommended"

[@BrettonFerguson]

The mountain bulge was growing 5 meters a day. Nobody thought to leave. FYI: If you are on a mountain built by a volcanic activity, even if the volcano is now "dormant", if it starts bulging 5 meters a day, you should leave.

[@mrbear1302]

People did evacuate but nothing happened for quite a while....... Then they started to go back and it erupted soon after.

[@stash.]

Why did this video cut out when you finally seen the volcano erupt!!!

[@eliroberson]

+Looncan I think it's because the guy that was filming knew he wouldn't make it so he rewound the footage and put in in the case and in his backpack to protect it for the future. But i could be wrong

[@louisleahy3524]

+Looncan Because this isn't an actual video. No video of the initial eruption exists. The person who caught this on camera took a series of 20-something photographs back to back and scientists put them together and made a computerized video of what it would pretty much look like. That is why the explosions at the very end look weirdly morphed and computerized. The only videos that exist are those from after the eruption when news crews and USGS surveyors were videotaping.

[@jorgeportillo483]

+Louie Washam this actually happened because Im Learnig this in schoo

[@MobileTaz]

+Eli Roberson Yeah. You're wrong. Jeezus where do you morons come up with this crap?

[@ChrisM-tn3hx]

+Looncan This video is NOT the eruption. It's just the landslide that took place immediately before the eruption. A 5.1 quake caused the already weakened and bulging north face to landslide. Once that massive weight was gone, there was no longer enough pressure to hold the magma within the volcano. The actual eruption was very explosive and happened several seconds after the landslide you see here, expelling magma and rock at nearly 400 miles per hour. It blew ash and smoke 80,000 feet (15 miles) into the atmosphere, and the explosion completely obliterated everything within 8 miles, and caused massive devastation beyond that in some directions up to 20 miles. Trees were strewn about like toothpicks as far as the eye could see. Most people only think about the initial blast, but pyroclastic flows continued for nearly 2 weeks, and there were further minor eruptions until July 22nd, 2 months after the initial blast. EDIT - You might find it interesting to know, that at the time I was living in New Brunswick, Canada, which is 3500 miles, or 5600 kilometres away. Even at that distance, we were getting ash from the volcano for quite some time. You could see a film of it on your windshield every day.

[@tickmothy]

volcanoes, mother natures acne.

[@someshkadam2441]

robert deldge Or Cyst*

[@hugq14]

robert deldge OMFG!!! You are a genius!!!! You solved the mystery of the Volcano!

[@lynnkayee1015]

Mother Natures menstrual cycle

[@ohiostate9704]

Volcanoes: God lighting a match.

[@shack8110]

red-hot MAG-ma

[@shannencj2282]

I can't help but to sing bill wurtz's "mount Saint hellen is bout to blow up"

[@stuartprice9683]

Very glad this was recommended to me for no reason. 10years on. Cheers

[@brandonspencer309]

Have you been paying attention to all the earthquake's that have been going on the past month or so? To many 7+mag's too count/remember and art least one 8+magnitude mostly around Japan and New Zealand but the hike earth has been shaking for months now. Check out Dutchshines yt channel

[@kalliope5088]

“Make a mountain with your successes” The mountain:

[@anveshatagore542]

Jahahahahahahahah

[@coKiitoVas]

Underrated comment.

[@mrsugar7528]

U made my day

[@robertlee8400]

The ash from this reach my home town of Cincinnati , Ohio I remember going outside & seeing a faint grey dust sitting on cars , you could see it real well on black or dark colored cars . I was 7 when this happened . My uncle went out & collected the volcanic dust off of the cars & put it in a glass bottle because it was a historical event of the time & he still has the volcano dust labeled in that glass bottle from what happened . You can clearly see that the volcanic dust is like no other dust , it’s just a weird grey color . It’s a neat thing to pass on to future generations .

[@OhPhuckYou]

I have a jar with the ash too. Not sure how my grandma got it as we live in Kansas, but she used to travel a lot. I suppose she was near the eruption and decided to take some ash home.

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I live in Tenerife where we have the highest mountain in all of Spain, El teide. It's 3,718 mtrs high and for us is like a sacred place. However, millions of years ago, there was an even higher volcano, that stood at about 5,000 to 7,000 mtrs and it collapsed in a landslide creating a huge plain in the northern part of the island which you can clearly see in satellite images. This footage makes me wonder how such a landslide would've looked and the real destructive power of nature.