Statistics for Volcano: Mt St. Helens

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Was his body ever found?	No	100%
How many states did ash fall on in the following days?	11	67%
How many canadian provinces?	2	67%
What happened at 8:32 AM on May 18th that was the largest of its kind in recorded history?	a landslide	67%
What was the name of the lake directly in the blast path of the eruption?	Spirit Lake	67%
What river carried mud and debris down toward the columbia river?	Toutle River	67%
What is the most commonly cited number of deaths associated with the eruption?	57	33%
What signaled the return to life after 123 years on March 20th, 1980?	an earthquake	33%
What was the name of the man who refused to leave his home as people were being asked to evacuate between march and may, and who shares a name with a president?	Harry Truman	33%
What was the date biggest eruption in 123 years?	May 18th 1980	33%
How much monetary damage was done by the eruption in 1980 dollars?	$1.1 billion	0%
How many feet smaller was Mt. St. Helens after the eruption?	1280 ft	0%
How much ash was removed from roads and airports of the state of Washington alonge?	2.4 million cubic yards	0%
how many megatons of tnt was the eruption equivalent to?	26 megatons	0%
What was it's magnitude?	4.2	0%
how much timber was damaged or destroyed?	4 billion board feet	0%
How high was the resulting wave created by the trees, mud, and debris crashing into the above named lake?	600 ft.	0%
How far away was he when he died	6 miles	0%
How many bridges on the north fork of the above named river were washed away by the mudslides and debris	7	0%
How tall was the eruption column?	80,000 ft	0%
How did most of those people die	Asphyxiation	0%
	Camp Baker	0%
What was the name of the volcanologist who died less than a minute into the eruption?	David A. Johnson	0%
What is the Mt. St. Helens mountain and blast zone now called?	Mt. St. Helens National Volcanic Monument	0%
What is the translation of, Loowitlatkla, the Puyallup tribe's name for Mt. St. Helens?	Smoking Mountain	0%
What small communities were wipe off the map by the eruption?	St Helens	0%