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Old tapes reveal new details of a deadly volcanic outburst

Scientific sleuthing uncovers data from the run-up to a massive blast at Mount St. Helens.
Smoke and ash is seen rising from the crater of Mount St Helens.

Mount St. Helens erupts in 2004. Painstakingly restored analogue tapes document the volcano’s 1980 eruption, which killed 57 people. Credit: John Pallister/USGS/Getty

Decades-old analogue tapes have yielded unprecedented details of earthquakes that shook Mount St. Helens in the months leading up to its cataclysmic eruption in 1980.

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Nature 578, 194 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-00264-5

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