Mount St. Helens is a volcano in the Cascade Mountains, 95 miles (153 km) south of Seattle. It is 8,363 ft high. It is 40,000 years old. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat lord St. Helens, a friend of George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. At 8:32 Sunday morning Mount St. Helens erupted shaken by a 5.1 earthquake. There were unfortunately 57 people killed by Mount St. Helens when it. The lava poured out rounding to the speed of 650 miles per hour. Mount St. Helens transformed millions of acres of prehistoric forest into a virtual wasteland. Mount St. Helens was one of the biggest eruptions ever.
