Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Disaster relief
ISBN :
Author : Connie Manson
Publisher :
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Geology
ISBN :
Author : Kristine Harper
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1438102267
The long dormant Mount St. Helens volcano of the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State erupted on May 18, 1980.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 24,54 MB
Release : 1980-10
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1980-10
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387281509
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens caused tragic loss of life and property, but also created a unique opportunity to study a huge disturbance of natural systems and their subsequent responses. This book synthesizes 25 years of ecological research into of volcanic activity, and shows what actually happens when a volcano erupts, what the immediate and long-term dangers are, and how life reasserts itself in the environment.
Author : Thomas F. Saarinen
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,65 MB
Release : 1985-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438418426
This comprehensive book traces the warning, planning, and response to the eruption of Mount St. Helens in May 1980, as seen through the eyes of key actors in the emergency. Based on first-hand accounts by 130 officials of government, private industry, and volunteer organizations—individuals who played prominent roles in preparing for and dealing with the eruption—it represents a unique overview of the problems and procedures involved in learning about, planning for, and dealing with a major disaster. Ironically, the first official warning had come as early as two years previously. More warnings came several months before the explosion. Yet many persons involved either ignored them or remained unaware that they could be affected. The book shows how this happened, suggesting steps that can be taken to insure future preparedness for large-scale emergencies.
Author : Ruby McConnell
Publisher : Overcup Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 38,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1732610339
FINALIST for the 2021 Oregon Book Award. Rooted in the Pacific Northwest, the essays in Ruby McConnell's Ground Truth: A Geological Survey of a Life cover the vast terrain of this region &– from volcanoes to city parks, the eroding shorelines along the Oregon coast, badlands, lush forests, and city parks. Combining her background as a registered geologist, McConnell's essays also weave in personal landscapes composed of grief, loss, and optimism for the future of our environment. "The Pacific Northwest that you see today is the result of forty years of radical changes in the culture and economics of what was once a resource-extraction and agriculture-driven region. They are changes so fundamental in nature and scope...that, for those of us from this place, will always be marked by the cataclysmic eruptions of Mt. St. Helens on May 18, 1980." --Ruby McConnell In this collection of 17 essays, geologist Ruby McConnell opens her part natural history, part memoir-in-essays about the Pacific Northwest with the cataclysmic eruption of Mt. St. Helens in May of 1980. She was two years old. "Everything that I have stood direct witness to since, everything I know about this place, happe
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher :
Page : 1220 pages
File Size : 47,20 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Steve Olson
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,48 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0393353583
A riveting history of the Mount St. Helens eruption that will "long stand as a classic of descriptive narrative" (Simon Winchester). For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, and nearby residents listened anxiously to rumblings from Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington State. Still, no one was prepared when a cataclysmic eruption blew the top off of the mountain, laying waste to hundreds of square miles of land and killing fifty-seven people. Steve Olson interweaves vivid personal stories with the history, science, and economic forces that influenced the fates and futures of those around the volcano. Eruption delivers a spellbinding narrative of an event that changed the course of volcanic science, and an epic tale of our fraught relationship with the natural world.
