Mount St. Helens: America’s Deadliest Eruption

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Source/Further reading:

History overview: https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/mount-st-helens

List and bio details on all 57 victims: https://eruptionbook.com/victims/

More details on some victims: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/the-cataclysm-vancouver-vancouver-this-is-it/

Mistakes that led to deaths, and details on some of those deaths: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-15-adna-helensvic15-story.html

More on the mistakes: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164079

How the death toll could’ve been much worse: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160320-mount-st-helens-eruption-logging-volcano-olson-ngbooktalk/

Incredible photos of the blast, during and after: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens-in-1980/393557/

The weird tale of Harry R. Truman: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/harry-versus-the-volcano

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/26/40-years-ago-in-spokane-man-refuses-to-evacuate-as/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-man-refused-to-leave/

Map of victims: https://www.columbian.com/news/2010/may/18/interactive-map-mount-st-helens-eruption-victims/

Future eruptions: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-st-helens/future-eruptions-mount-st-helens