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...months ahead, residents of Ritzville and a large slice of the Northwest will have to live with the ash, a visible reminder of the titanic forces of nature that shape the earth. To volcano experts Mount St. Helens may be a baby and its eruption second-rate. But to the people in its path it was a catastrophe...
...Mount Etna, a long-active peak in Sicily, spewed a river of lava that poured through the streets of Catania. Some 20,000 perished in Catania and 13 other cities and towns...
...fearful black cloud riven by darting tongues of flame, which then dissolved into long plumes of fire. We could hear the shrieks of women, the screams of children. Most were convinced that this must be the end of the world." So wrote Pliny the Younger of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the most famous volcanic explosion in history. The blast buried the Roman towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii under mud and hot ash and killed at least 2,000. In more modern times there have been several catastrophic eruptions of volcanoes. Among them...
...Mount Skaptar erupted in Iceland, filling a valley with lava up to 75 ft. deep. The blast's devastating effects on farming and fishing caused a famine that killed 10,000 (one-fifth of the country's population) and destroyed most of the island's livestock...
...Mount Tambora on Indonesia's Sumbawa Island exploded, ejecting 25 cu. mi. of volcanic material, the greatest amount since ancient times. Whirlwinds and tidal waves killed 12,000, while dust and ash plunged the island into darkness for three days...