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Seconds from Disaster•Season 2•Episode 4

Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)

7.5/10 · 43 votesJul 26, 200547 min

Ranked #8 of 19 in Season 2•+0.1 vs season avg

Mount St. Helens, in the countryside of Washington State, has been dormant for 123 years. But on May 1980, it suddenly erupts, killing 57. Why couldn't they predict it?

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Seasons7

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Season 2 Episodes19

Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia) still

Columbia's Last Flight (Space Shuttle Columbia)

Alpine Tsunami

Motorway Plane Crash (Freeway Plane Crash)

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Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)

Zeebrugge Ferry Disaster (Capsized in the North Sea)

Kobe Earthquake (Killer Quake)

Crash Landing at Sioux City

The Bali Bombing (Disco Bombing)

Hotel Collapse Singapore (Hotel Collapse)

TWA Flight 800

Paris Train Crash (Runaway Train)

The Hindenburg (Hindenburg Airship)

Explosion in Peurto Rico (Puerto Rico Gas Explosion)

Skywalk Collapse

Amsterdam Air Crash (Plane Crash in the Suburbs)

Russia's Nuclear Sub Nightmare (Sinking of the Kursk)

King's Cross Fire (London's Subway Inferno)

US Embassy Bombing (American Embassy Bombing)

Florida Swamp Air Crash (Everglades Plane Crash)

Cast2

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Richard Vaughn

Narrator

A

Ashton Smith

Narrator (US)

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Episode Summary

"Mount St Helens Eruption (Mount St. Helens Eruption)" is episode 4 of Seconds from Disaster season 2. It scored 7.5/10 from 43 votes, ranking #8 of 19 episodes this season (season average 7.4). It aired on July 26, 2005.

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