1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens

The largest volcanic eruption in the last two million years.

Six thousand times more powerful than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.

so massive that it ejected six hundred seventy cubic miles of rock and ash into the atmosphere that's enough material to bury the entire state of texas under five feet of volcanic debris the explosion was heard across half the planet the shock wave circled the globe multiple times but the immediate devastation was nothing compared to what came next.

Within hours a blanket of ash began settling over South and Southeast Asia.

So bad that Mount, what's the volcano that erupted? Yes.

Mount Hood? No.

St. Helens.

Mount St. Helens was erupting in his bed.