The day I should have died

• Autores: Dan Swanson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3126, 2017, págs. 38-39
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Stock details how volcanologist Don Swanson's life changed in the Mount St Helens eruption of 1980. At 8:32 am on 18 May 1980, Mount St Helens erupted. He was about 70 kilometers away in Vancouver, Washington, watching the seismograph, when the instruments started showing major activity. He ran to the radio to call Dave Johnston, his colleague in a field station at the volcano. There was no reply. He didn't grasp the scale of the eruption until he was flying over it later that morning. The top of the mountain simply wasn't there, replaced instead by a huge column of ash.