Mount St. Helens On May 18, 1980, it was an amazingly beautiful day for May in the Pacific Northwest. Being a Sunday, there were only a few loggers, campers and scientists in the area. Many of these people had thought they were safe because of the mountain's silence. Not even the scientists could predict exactly what was to come. At 8:32 a.m. a 5.1 magnitude quake struck one mile below the mountain. While there had been literally hundreds …showed first 75 words of 319 total…

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