Mount St.

Helens Eruption

By Taha Cetinkaya
 Mount St. Helens
Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington state in USA.
Mount St. Helens is in the rocky mountains in the Pacific Northwest
region of USA.
Mount St. Helens sits in the North American plate where the Juan
De Fuca plate collides with it.
It was 2, 950 metres high and was reduced to 2, 549 metres because
of the eruption. 401 metres of rock was removed.
Mountain St. Helens is an active volcano that still erupts.
It is over 40,000 years old
 What Happened?
The Juan De Fuca plate slipped in under the north American plate
because it was denser. In 1980 the experts of the USGs noticed that
Mount St. Helens was going to erupt because there had been ash
coming out of the mountain. On March a bulge appeared on the
north side of the mountain. It was caused by the magma forcing it’s
way up the vent of the mountain. The vent was blocked by the lava
from the last eruption so the magma was forced to move to the side.
The bulge was growing about 6 feet(2 metres) everyday. No one
knew when the volcano was going to erupt because there were a lot
 The North side Bulge

The
bulge The bulge
Before The Eruption