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Mount St. Helens: NASA Releases Time-Lapse Video Before and After Destruction

Posted: May 19, 2012

Yesterday marked the 32nd anniversary of the May 18, 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption that killed 57 people and unleashed destruction on several miles of forest in Washington.

To mark the anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption, NASA released a time-lapse video showing the volcano before all of the destruction, and afterwards. The video also goes to show us how much can change in

The devastating Mount St. Helens eruption occurred after a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck beneath the volcano. What followed was a catastrophic event that was responsible for the largest landslide in recorded history (anywhere on Earth), roughly 23 square miles.

The time-lapse video of Mount St. Helens shows the devastation left from the explosion and the landslide and, while the area still bears clearly visible scars from the catastrophic event, you can see that much has changed in and around Mount St. Helens over the past 30 years.

You can check out the Mount St. Helens time-lapse video below, via Reuters.

Do you remember when the news first broke that Mount St. Helens erupted?



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14 Archived Responses to “ Mount St. Helens: NASA Releases Time-Lapse Video Before and After Destruction ”

  1. Krush Elliot
    May 19, 2012

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  2. Tabitha Rynkiewicz
    May 19, 2012

    I was about 8 years old when Mount St Helens blew her top. I lived in Portland at the time and remember the thick ash all over the city. It looked like grey snow every where. Plus wearing a bandana around my nose and mouth in order to walk to school. It was an amazing sight. Plus riding on the city buses and seeing her erupt many other times afterwards. At 8 years old it was pretty exciting to see.

  3. Jim Barbas
    May 20, 2012

    I used to go deer and elk hunting around St. Helens when I was in the Air Force. I left there 3 months before she blew.

  4. Leah Smith-Melika
    May 20, 2012

    I grew up in Kelso, Wa. I was riding horses that Sunday morning and the horses were being stubborn. My friend and I saw the mountain blow. I saw the logs float down the Cowlitz River from my house. Amazing.

  5. Anji Carter James
    May 20, 2012

    I lived in ashland ore, I was 10 I remember the ash so thick we all thought it snowed? My parents moved 3 weeks after due to fears of contamination……it was surreal and scary at the same time..

  6. Robert Emrick
    May 20, 2012

    Lived in McMinnville, drove to to the top of the hill and watched it continue to erupt from 70 milesd away.

  7. Tank Morris
    May 21, 2012

    I lived in Maple Valley , when it blew me an my younger brother where outside , we heard it blow an our mom said oh its probly the neighbor up the road using TNT again lol….I remember sitting on Henry Truemans front porch at the lodge dinking the coldest I'll ever drink in the shade playing with his old dog while him an my grandfather talked fishing.I also lost 2 good friends I paled around with , their dad took them up to camp in a restricted zone.theirs pictures that get shown all the time of the dead person in the back of a pick up truck , that was one of the brothers.I still have some ash saved that we got at our house.

  8. Travis Clark
    May 21, 2012

    I visited Mt. St. Helens last weekend (that's her behind me in the photo) and it's incredible to see how life is returning to the area. I've been a Washington resident for a year and enjoy visiting the area… The hiking is great… I've seen herds of elk and gotten some great photos. I plan to hike to the top this summer. :-)

  9. Travis Clark
    May 21, 2012

    I visited Mt. St. Helens last weekend (that's her behind me in the photo) and it's incredible to see how life is returning to the area. I've been a Washington resident for a year and enjoy visiting the area… The hiking is great… I've seen herds of elk and gotten some great photos. I plan to hike to the top this summer. :-)

  10. Michael Keller
    May 21, 2012

    You need an English grammar class.

  11. Anonymous
    May 21, 2012

    I remember when the mountain blew. I was 7 and I remember it like it was yesterday. I felt all of the earthquakes a few days before, and even the one that started it all. I remember standing on the back porch looking south and seeing that HUGE plume of ash and smoke spewing into the sky. School was cancelled for the rest of the year, fire and emergency equipment couldn't respond to any calls because the rigs kept stalling out from the ash. In fact, my mom was the LAST person on Interstate 5 before the State Patrol closed it down.

    I lived in Centralia and we got a little over 4" of ash from the mountain. I have SO MANY fond memories of that day that I could go on and on. Although I didn't know anyone who lost their lives in the eruption, my thoughts and prayers go out to the friends and family those who did every year.

    The rebirth of the area is truly amazing. There are even plants that have shown up in the area that weren't there before. That has scientists a little confused…but the area continues to thrive with wildlife, plant life and continues to show natures rebuilding process after being totally wiped away.

  12. Leah Smith-Melika
    May 21, 2012

    I remember that picture, I remember Harry Truman as well. My friend's parents took us up to Spirit Lake to camp before Mt. Saint Helens became active. My friend Tony lost his house he lived by the Toutle River.

  13. Angela James
    May 21, 2012

    Actually it was Lake Oswego. Near Portland..

  14. Joslyn Moses
    Feb 6, 2013

    I worked for the YIN foresty fire control and was stationed at signal peak ranger station below the base of Mt Adams and the thunder and lighting seem like it was roof top high and the ash fall out was thick and hot ..before that I was goinbg to bear creek to catch trout for breakfast and seen the black cloud which i thought was thunder heads until it grew dark and we turn around and could not see a foot in front of the truck we made it back to the ranger station and by radio contact we were inform to try and keep all by passers in camp but nobody would stay they just thought once they get out of the montains it would be okay but by then the ash fall out was falling in yakima wa and other lower valley cities. we spent most of the summer cleaning up the ranger station. In was loud and dark. The second history note in my life the other was the total eclipse of the sun and the four wars I lived through…there more to come I am sure nature is powerful let me tell you about heart ache and the loss of god wandering wandering in hopeless night