Claire

**Th** **e Fiery **** Truth About Volcanoes ** Hi! I'm Claire and I go to [|MICDS] in St. Louis, MO. I'm sure you've seen the cartoon [|volcanoes] that erupt with bubbles or something else but here you will learn the truth. You may know that they explode with [|lava] but did you know that some volcanoes only explode with [|ash], or that [|Mt. Saint Helens] blew off one side when it exploded. All I can say is be ready for the truth you will find about volcanoes...... [] ** ^ ** ** I **
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If you like volcanoes than Mt. St. Helens is a treat. At 8,363 feet tall Mt. St. Helens is not as high as other volcanoes but it is 1,314 feet shorter than it was before the day it exploded. Mt. St. Helens exploded several times with a total extreme force of 25 megatons! The volcano exploded on May 18, 1980 at 8:32 AM when the volcano had a need to relieve stress. In the Washington explosion the entire left side of the mountain blew off! A majority of the ash went to a town to the east called Yakima, but the ash got to the west eventually.

I'm sure people take [|volcano warnings and drills] A LOT more seriously now that it has done damage. Things that people do now days to keep safe from Mt. St. Helens are listening to the early predictions that come almost every eruption a few days earlier. If we had predictions of eruptions in 1980 then maybe more people could have evacuated.Things that people do to prepare before a volcanic eruption is preparing a kit with [|food that won't spoil], [|water], masks, and a battery powered radio. Things that people do during a volcano to stay safe include staying inside, checking with neighbors to make sure they're safe, and keeping masks on at all times. After a volcano, people should stay in tune with the radio and listen for updates about what to do. The more lava, mudflows, and volcanic ash that there is means more preparing. If more people followed these instructions plus the predictions we have figured out how to make today then maybe less then 57 people would have died.

Here is a Current Event of a Volcano in Chile

Chile Volcano Causes Ash Alert The article “Chile Volcano Eruption: Alert Remains for Ash Cloud” from BBC News; Latin America and Caribbean by “BBC News” and was written on June 6th, 2011. A volcanic eruption of the Puyehue-Cordon-Caulle volcano range in Chile causes 3,500 people to evacuate. Evacuation was one of the ways the people of Chile reacted, but many of them must have been prepared with all of the volcanoes they have in Chile. The Chilean winds caused the ash to drop over the Argentine Resort of Bariloche, all the way the way across the Andes! Then the wind blew it back to where it came from. This has caused San Carlos de Bariloche, which is 62 miles east of the volcano, to also be warned and under alert. After effects included an earthquake and evacuations of towns that were warned of ash fall and such. As Santiago Rozas, the mayor of Lago Ranco, which is a town 40 miles north of the volcano range, had said, it is a complicated situation that we're in. Chile has very many volcanoes, around 3,000 actually. Just about eighty are active, if I lived in Chile I'd stay prepared for volcanic eruptions. In 1960 the volcano chain had exploded after a large earthquake, and this is the first big explosion from that chain since then. Many activities and classes were postponed and people predicted flights would also be put off until further notice. This article is very important to science because of many reasons, a major one being that volcanoes are a wonder and a threat to the science world because they a very interesting but they could erupt with deadly lava and ash at any second. Two facts I learned from this article is that there are about 3,000 volcanoes in Chile and volcanoes and earthquakes are very common to happen before and after each other. []

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I would like to give a big thanks to: [] [] [] [] "Mt. St. Helens Erupting" [|http://web.ebscohost.com/src/detail?vid=5&hid=106&sid=cc761dd6-e87f-4d5a-ab2e-2296a683c418%40sessionmgr114&bdata=JnNpdGU9c3JjLWxpdmU%3d#db=ulh&authdb=imh&AN=imh215102] "USA, Washington, Mt. St. Helens Erupting" Wood, Charles The New Book of Knowledge Danbury: Scholastic Library Inc., 2008. Print.

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