Mt St Helens

Flashcards on the Mt St Helens eruption.

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What time did Mt St Helens erupt?
8:32 am
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What was the Richter scale reading?
5.1
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how many people died?
57
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What was the km no zone?
8 km
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how many km was wiped out?
27km
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what needed to be done dut to the ash?
masks needed to be worn, planes were diverted.
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what did President Carter do?
sent 2 million masks to the area immediatlly.
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what did the government do?
provided emergancy shelters for the survivors, mobalised search and rescue opperations, checked with specialist colcanologists before sending people back to the area, and traqnsported survivours to nearby towns.
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How much money did the government give?
$951 million in aid.
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othe responses.
new homes were built, re-opened the area to tourists, re-built the forest withspecies returing to the area re-building the roads and revoval of fallen timber.
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Card 2

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5.1

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What was the Richter scale reading?

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57

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Card 4

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8 km

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Card 5

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27km

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