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Originally Posted by rlpw
Annual emission rates, Mount St. Helens 1980-1988
Year
kilotons (metric)
1980 222
1981 105
1982 45
1983 39
1984 26
1985 13
1986 17
1987 3.5
1988 2.5
An estimated 1.5 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide gas was discharged by Mount St. Helens during the explosive eruption of 18 May 1980. Thus, approximately 2 million metric tons of sulfur dioxide was released during the whole eruption sequence.
The terrible part of this is there are volcanic sights called Calderas that are several Kilometers wide and when they go off they hurl everything straight up. Like at Yellowstone
How Foolish us Mortals be to think we are any match to the power of Gaea |
it's crazy.
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