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Why Were There Casualties Associated With The Mount St Helens Eruption Of 1980?

Why were there casualties associated with the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980? They died because most failed to heed the order to evacuate the area. Why was the eruption of Mount St. Helens so violent? Mount St. Helens’ magma is inherently more explosive than the Kīlauea magma: it has more water in it than …

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