‘Eruption’ looks back at devastating Mount St. Helens blast
Social and economic forces contributed to the natural disaster
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BOOM In Eruption, science writer Steve Olson recounts the societal, economic and geologic forces that contributed to the Mount St. Helens disaster in 1980.
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