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Here’s a fascinating video about the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was preceded by one of the largest landslides in recorded history. Amateur photographer Keith Ronnholm had set up camp that day at Bear Meadows, roughly 10 miles northeast of the mountain.At around 8:30 in the morning, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake triggered a massive landslide that wiped out the north face of the volcano, with the entire surface moving at up to 115 miles per hour. Pat Forgey of the The Daily News has an interesting account from Ronnholm’s perspective:
Looking up, Ronnholm saw a lot more than what he’d come for. “The entire north face of the mountain, what was called the ‘bulge,’ was sliding down,” he said. At first forgetting he’d come to take photos, Ronnholm hesitated getting his camera. “I thought, ‘I’ll never get it focused in time, this is all happening too fast,’ ” he said.
Standing third ridge removed from the mountain, Ronnholm thought he had a good spot to view the geologic event of a lifetime. He began snapping pictures with his 35mm Minolta as a lateral blast shot out of the volcano and swirled and boiled toward him. Ronnholm said he …
By: Michael Zhang
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