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There's very little left down here. >> the story begins in 1983. kalapana is a lush, fishing village on the eastern coast of the big island. but the town's proximity to a very active volcano means residents live watchfully and remindful of the threat of destruction. in january, 1983, kilauea erupts, blasting lava high into the air. nick and his crew begin to film the explosive events. >> the high fountain back in the '80s, once a month, once every three weeks, it would high fountain 1,500 feet in the air and it was absolutely amazing. >> this high fountaining is a spectacle, but looks could be...

Village on the eastern coast of the big island. but the town's proximity to a very active volcano means residents live watchfully and are ever mindful of the threat of destruction. in january, 1983, kilauea erupts, blasting lava high into the air. nick and his crew begin to film the explosive events. >> the high fountain back in the '80s once a month, every three weeks it would high fountain 800 to 1,500 feet in the air, and it was absolutely amazing. >> this high fountaining is a spectacle, but looks could be deceiving. kilauea is effusive, not explosive like mount st. helens. ilities rr less...

Column that went straighé tp for 15 miles then started drifting. it started spreading around the globe. by lunch time the ash from the volcanic eruption was raining down in significant quantity on the city of spokane which is 250 mile as way from mount st. helen's two weeks that ash cloud had traveled all of the way east across the united states. all of the way across the atlantic ocean, all of the way across asia and had started to come back around the other side of the world. that ash cloud had circled the globe within 15 days and what happened in the air is so massive and so hard to get yo...

Largest landslide in history physically changed their world. when the top of that mountain blew off and the north side of that mountain collapsed the debris from that in less than ten minutes filled an adjacent river valley. 25 square miles of that river valley to an average depth of 150 feet in less than ten minutes. imagine taking this huge river valley filling it with degree the height of a 12 to 15-story building, and it all happens in less than ten minutes. one of the rivers that flows through that part of washington, d.c. state is the mighty, mighty columbia river. mount st. helen's erup...

Happens one mile beneath a huge active volcano it can be the start of something that feels a little like the end of the world. when that earthquake happened a mile beneath mt. st. helens 35 years ago today thus started a huge volcanic eruption in the couldn't nental united states. it blew 1300 feet off the top of that mountain in washington straight. the whole north side of that mountain collapsed and quickly. that collapse was the largest lackedslide in recorded history. rock and searing hot gases shot sideways out of the collapsed mountain going hundreds of miles an hour. trees came down as ...