Mt St Helens
The two case studies I chose for my paper are the Mount St. Helen and Mount Pinatubo volcano eruptions. In this paper I will compare and contrasts the two volcanic eruptions on an individual, economic, and globally implications. The Mount St. Helens eruption took place on May 18, 1980. The eruption was designated as a five on the volcano index. The Mount Pinatubo eruption took place on June 15, 1991,and it was designated as a six on the volcano index. Mount Pinatubo eruption was about ten times larger than Mount St. Helens. Both volcano eruptions experienced a similar pattern. Both volcanoes had earthquakes before the actual eruption. Both eruptions generated tremendous amounts of ash and volcanic debris that resulted in large lahars that devastated much of the surrounding land, cities, and homes. Both eruptions afterward experienced many small earthquakes. Another similarity of both these eruptions is the effect it had on the people. In both eruptions lives were lost due to roofs collapsing or being incinerated from high temperature ash clouds, which effected obviously those people who lost there lives and family members along with surviving members of the community. People in both of these eruptions exp
Topinka, Lyn "CVO Photo Archives- Mount St. Helens Images" USGS/Cascades "Tell me about Pinatubo" Volcano World n.pag. Online Internet 23 Nov. 1998 1998 Available: Vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/photo. Both Mount St. Helens and Mount Pinatubo were devastating natural disasters but what I found real interesting is how Mount St. Helens did so little comparison to Mount Pinatubo but there is so much more publicity towards Mount St. Helens. Mount Pinatubo eruption was the world's largest known eruption in more than half a century, and caused the most change to the planet, but in all the information I found is seemed to me the bottom line was the dollar amount. The final similarity I found was how both incidents were monitored by volconoligist and people were told to evacuate limiting the human life lost.
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