5-20-20 uw-oshkosh geology professor remembers mount st. helens eruption

Forty years ago this week on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state, and four decades later the mysteries surrounding the volcano still astound scientists.   UW Oshkosh geology professor Dr. Jennifer Wenner was only ten years old at the time.  “Forty years.  I still remember it, and I was only ten but it was a big thing,”  Wenner told WFDL news.  “It’s the one thing  when I talk to my students now none of them remember it because they’re way too young.”  The main eruption would last nine hours, and kill 57 people, spewing ash that carried all the way around the world in 15 days.  While the mountain might not erupt again in our lifetime, Dr. Wenner says there are other active volcanoes in the Cascade range that might,  including Mount Ranier near Seattle.

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