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There is a unexpected small eruption that causes cracks to show in the mountain and an ominous bulge appears.
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The government starts a state of emergency and establishes a red zone around the base of the volcano
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A little bit of ash starts coming out of the volcano
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The magma gets blocked, so it starts rising out the side making the bulge bigger and bigger.
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Bulge keeps on getting bigger and red zone is expanded to 3 to 8 miles around the mountain. People start getting evacuated.
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Scientists site is set up, bulge grows about 5 feet per day.
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Ground starts to shake a little bit causing the scientists to be afraid the eruption is near
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Everyone who was evacuated is unrestful and starts to argue with the police to let them in to their homes.
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An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale occurs at the base of the mountain. This causes an enormous fracture to open up.
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The glacier caps of the mountain had melted from the intense of the eruption and sent 46 billion gallons of water down the mountain in a mudslide.
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Mountain erupts sending scorching hot ash into the air.
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Ash cloud reaches Yakima, Washington, 97 miles away.
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Magma is still rising and escapes from volcano
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Eruption starts to slow down; 200 square miles of forest have been destroyed by this point.
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President Jimmy Carter flies over the area to see the destruction, and Federal Emergency Relief is on the way.
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Mountain erupts again sending a blast of ash 8 miles into the air.
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