Mount St. Helens: America’s Deadliest Eruption
Description updated - Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/geographics and enter promo code GEOGRAPHICS for 83% off and 3 extra months for free! → Subscribe for new videos two times per week. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw?sub_confirmation=1 Our sister channels: Biographics - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClnDI2sdehVm1zm_LmUHsjQ TopTenz - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ-hpFPF4nOKoKPEAZM_THw/ This video is #sponsoredy by Surfshark. Source/Further reading: History overview: https://www.history.com/topics/natural-disasters-and-environment/mount-st-helens List and bio details on all 57 victims: https://eruptionbook.com/victims/ More details on some victims: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/the-cataclysm-vancouver-vancouver-this-is-it/ Mistakes that led to deaths, and details on some of those deaths: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-15-adna-helensvic15-story.html More on the mistakes: https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/164079 How the death toll could’ve been much worse: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/03/160320-mount-st-helens-eruption-logging-volcano-olson-ngbooktalk/ Incredible photos of the blast, during and after: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/05/the-eruption-of-mount-st-helens-in-1980/393557/ The weird tale of Harry R. Truman: https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/harry-versus-the-volcano https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/apr/26/40-years-ago-in-spokane-man-refuses-to-evacuate-as/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/one-man-refused-to-leave/ Map of victims: https://www.columbian.com/news/2010/may/18/interactive-map-mount-st-helens-eruption-victims/ Future eruptions: https://www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/mount-st-helens/future-eruptions-mount-st-helens
