Title: Awesome Power (7)
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:19-23
On Sunday May 18, 1980 Mount Saint Helens erupted with stunning fury creating devastation which covered 150 square miles. It took only seconds to turn the lush evergreen forests and meadows around Mount Saint Helens into a zone of death.
The landscape was swept clean in some areas. In others, trees 200 feet tall and six feet in diameter tumbled like matchsticks. Shredded metal from heavy logging equipment near the volcano was hurled a mile away. The pristine waters of Spirit Lake were turned into a black primordial soup.
The devastation covered a fan shaped area of 150 miles, but the damage extended even farther. The shipping channel in the Columbia River, 60 miles away, was closed after being clogged by volcanic mud and silt. Small towns in eastern Washington were isolated by the fallout of ash. Almost one million tons of ash were removed from highways and airports around the state.
The top 1,300 feet of the snowcapped cone of the mountain was blown away leaving behind a haunting, horseshoe shaped crater. The beautiful mountain once called, 'America's Fuji' was now no more, instead what was left was only part of the mountain.
The eruption triggered the largest landslide in history. Down the north side of the mountain and traveling at speeds of 180 mph, the avalanche swept over 1,100-foot-high ridges and 13 miles down to the Toutle River leaving behind deposits which were in some places 600 feet thick. As the avalanche hit Spirit Lake, the water splashed 400 feet up nearby ridges and the floor of the lake was raised more than 200 feet.
Once the avalanche "uncorked" the volcano, 13 billion gallons of water inside the peak flashed into steam, mixing with molten rock in a 24-megaton explosion heard hundreds of miles away.
Flows of volcanic fragments and gases heated to 900 degrees came next, hugging the ground as they roared down the mountain at ...
Series: Ephesians 1
Author: Stephen Whitney
Text: Ephesians 1:19-23
On Sunday May 18, 1980 Mount Saint Helens erupted with stunning fury creating devastation which covered 150 square miles. It took only seconds to turn the lush evergreen forests and meadows around Mount Saint Helens into a zone of death.
The landscape was swept clean in some areas. In others, trees 200 feet tall and six feet in diameter tumbled like matchsticks. Shredded metal from heavy logging equipment near the volcano was hurled a mile away. The pristine waters of Spirit Lake were turned into a black primordial soup.
The devastation covered a fan shaped area of 150 miles, but the damage extended even farther. The shipping channel in the Columbia River, 60 miles away, was closed after being clogged by volcanic mud and silt. Small towns in eastern Washington were isolated by the fallout of ash. Almost one million tons of ash were removed from highways and airports around the state.
The top 1,300 feet of the snowcapped cone of the mountain was blown away leaving behind a haunting, horseshoe shaped crater. The beautiful mountain once called, 'America's Fuji' was now no more, instead what was left was only part of the mountain.
The eruption triggered the largest landslide in history. Down the north side of the mountain and traveling at speeds of 180 mph, the avalanche swept over 1,100-foot-high ridges and 13 miles down to the Toutle River leaving behind deposits which were in some places 600 feet thick. As the avalanche hit Spirit Lake, the water splashed 400 feet up nearby ridges and the floor of the lake was raised more than 200 feet.
Once the avalanche "uncorked" the volcano, 13 billion gallons of water inside the peak flashed into steam, mixing with molten rock in a 24-megaton explosion heard hundreds of miles away.
Flows of volcanic fragments and gases heated to 900 degrees came next, hugging the ground as they roared down the mountain at ...
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