Discussion»Questions»Home and Garden» Why did all of those people who live/lived near the Kilaeua volcano have to be ordered to evacuate? ARE THEY THAT STUPID?
Do you remember the volcano in Washington? Why would you ask.
Mount St. Helens or Louwala-Clough (known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon and 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle, Washington. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.[1] The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.
Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its major 1980 eruption, the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States.[2] Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. A massive debris avalanche triggered by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale caused an eruption[3] that reduced the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 ft (2,950 m) to 8,363 ft (2,549 m), leaving a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater.[4] The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied.
As with most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is a large eruptive cone consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice, and other deposits. The mountain includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit, and off its northern flank sat the smaller Goat Rocks dome. Both were destroyed in the 1980 eruption.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at May 7, 2018 10:31 AM MDT
What makes you think you are qualified to judge them? Have you ever been to a volcano? Have you even looked at one on the internet? The first thing you notice is that the place is incredibly lush. A volcano makes good soil and it is common for all evidence of an eruption to be overgrown in a single season. Living beside a volcano is NICE!
Another consideration is that all of Hawaii is volcanoes.
So you think everybody should live in a safe place? Where is that? Never mind, I have already looked it up: Blanding, Utah. There is no evidence of any natural disaster ever. It's a lousy place to live. No water, no trees, poor soil, no source of income except by catering to tourists headed for Four Corners. But by god it's SAFE!
This post was edited by Not Sure at May 7, 2018 10:58 AM MDT
I agree, they were (and still are where volcanic activity is taking place) formed by a 'hot spot at the ocean floor as the tectonic plate slowly moves from South-East to North-West, The North-West islands are older and have less activity as they move away from the hot spot. Those who chose to build near Kilaeua did so knowing it had a lot of activity. The question was WHY DID THEY HAVE TO BE ORDERED TO LEAVE. They should have skipped town the moment it started to erupt. I would have, and probably most sane people did.
Yes, that is true. When Hawaii was first discovered, the sailors invited the islanders onto the ship and sold them into slavery. No violence at all. They were eager for any new experience.
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