From:	Basilisk <prier@***.UNIBAS.CH>
Subject:	History goes boom.
Date:	Wed, 18 May 1994 17:19:31 +0200

>>>>>[For you history buffs out there, today is the 75th aniversary of the
main eruption of Mt. St. Helens. I mean the pre-Awakening one. Tremblors
and minor gas venting started on 27. March, but at 08:32, 18. May, 1980,
there was a 5.1 (Richter) earthquake near the north face of the mountain,
followed by an explosion that pushed over 4,000,000,000 cubic meters (over
4 cubic /kilometers/) of rock and ash 20km up into the atmosphere. On that
day, the mountain lost about a /third/ of its volume, and the peak was
lowered 390m from 2,950m to 2,560m. And all this was PRE-Awakening, so
no Ghost Dancers or anything to push things along, just good ol' Mother
Nature, or whatever. Have a nice day.]<<<<<
-- Jeweler <07:17:40/05-18-55>