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Sounds good, but who even needs Volcano Monitoring?

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Sounds good, but who even needs Volcano Monitoring?

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Well, there are 14 states that have volcanoes. The first 13 have volcanoes which haven’t erupted for around 200 years. Except for the one that did and killed 57 people. It was called Mt. St. Helens. In fact, it still is called that. Apart from the 13 mostly non-volcanic states, there’s Hawaii, where they kind of expect it. Anyway, most people don’t have to worry about it. Probably. I mean, the last time Mt. St. Helens erupted– before the one in 1980 that killed all those people– was in 1857. It turns out those 57 people are the only ones that really had to worry about it. Well, there was a lot of damage from mudslides and stuff, and a plane even had to make an emergency landing when its jet intakes got clogged with ash. The fact remains that it’s pretty hard to say when a mountain is going to explode– unless you monitor seismic activity and use sensitive laser surveying equipment to look for terrain that is bulging and other science-type stuff. Governor Jindal is right when he says peo

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