Compare And Contrast Vesuvius And Mt St Helens

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Mount Saint Helens and Mount Vesuvius are volcanoes that have erupted they are both different and also the same here are some facts, similarities and differences of both the volcanoes. There are a lot of similarities of these volcanoes here are a few, they are both volcanoes, made a huge eruption, very destructive, damage, a huge black cloud, an earthquake before the eruption. Some of the ruins are still there today. The eruptions were very different too. Here are a few differences of Mt. St. Helens, it was 9,600 feet tall in a symmetrical cone shape, it erupted on May 11 1980 at 8:32am, the eruption blew the whole side of the mountain off and the eruption removed the upper 1,300 feet off forming a horseshoe shaped crater, it

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