Mount St. Helens Eruption. The Gary Rosenquist, AI interpolated landslide and eruption sequence. 

NOTE: I have had to delete a few comments in the last several months on this video. A lot of those comments have related to unduly harsh criticisms of the AI interpolation process, and some have related to calling this fake. One comment even suggested that this is not how it looked, even in spite of personal testimony from the photographer that took these photos, stating otherwise. As such, I am instituting a ground rule for my videos going forward. Any comment applying criticisms toward the AI interpolation process or appearance, no matter their nature, will be deleted. This is because of the fact that the source data for this interpolation was not captured at a regularly-timed interval. Twenty-three photos comprise the sequence, and six of those photos have been determined to have gaps of roughly three seconds between them, while others are just a second and a half apart. The entire sequence was captured in a thirty-six second time frame. As such, it is extremely difficult, even with the most advanced interpolation methods currently possible, to create a seamless, 100% realistic interpolation of the original photographic sequence. One comment even went so far as to suggest that Hollywood could have done a better job. As evidenced by the outlandish and highly unrealistic depictions newer documentaries have done to this sequence, I'd suggest otherwise. The reason this particular interpolation looks rough is simple: It's based on a set of original source images captured from a standard-definition documentary that aired in 1990. The screenshots taken of the sequence in that documentary, while decent, were insufficient for the methods applied. They were improved using AI sharpening and enhancement methods, yet still did not match the quality and resolution of the original sequence. As such, the interpolation had a lot of missing "data" to fill in. Since this interpolation, a greater-resolution product was produced ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rD-RldBQx7U.html ) , however even further work is currently in progress.

Imagine watching half a mountain disappear.

A friend and I hiked into and camped at a small high mountain lake in So. Oregon on 5/17. Savoring the solitude on that early Sunday morning we heard a distinct boom in the distance. After listening to the news after arriving home later that day I thought about the time frame of the sound we had heard. A local newspaper the next day stated that there numerous reports of a boom in the region and after contacting the regional airport, there were no planes in the airspace to have caused a sonic boom. I'm quite certain that although being 250 miles south I indeed heard Mt. Saint Helen's blow!

That final image is one of a kind. If you don’t know anything about volcanoes, what you’re essentially looking at is just about the most destructive force of nature on earth hidden within that cloud. That cloud is full of poisonous gases a thousand degrees hot and it’s blowing through the forest like a hurricane. Truly terrifying but an amazing event that happened in our world’s history, and fortunately we were able to document it and study it. Shows how incredible nature is and how far we’ve come along with it. We should never stop advancing and forward thinking. Our purpose in life is to create, not destroy. This was written by a human not an AI. I’m drunk

At this speed you can see it throwing shock waves through the dust cloud. Many concussions are visible

Interesting note: Actor John Voight's brother, Barry Voight, is a landslide specialist, and he actually predicted that this would happen.

This is an amazing piece of work, thanks. I'm sharing it with my students in a lecture on Volcanic Hazards, hope you're OK with that.

My mom was a teenager living in Oregon at the time; she could see St. Helens from her neighborhood when it blew, and she got plenty of ash from the eruption.

I want to thank you for this.I was at school in Surrey BC when St Helens blew and our principal told everyone we had to go home for our own safety.When I got outside yhe sky was allready black with ash.

The sheer scale of dirt being moved is impressive

We were camping in Colorado out of our brown Pinto, which we called "the bean", on that day. When we woke up to a very hazy sky we had no idea of the cause. It was one of those days you never forget.

you know what is that, that is a phenomenon

Frame is 2 miles tall and 5 miles wide. The northwest face of the mountain is a 6000 foot tall landslide. Having climbed up the south rim you simply cannot comprehend the scale. 60 people were simply never found.

When I was 9 years old, I was at the beach watching it when it erupted then the ash was falling, we collected ash, but has been lost after. Very few things I remember as a kid but that was one of them.

I was a teenager in Seattle as St.Helens swelled , then blew. We watched an eruption it had later thru binoculars (100 miles away , looking down Puget Sound ) and could see car sized rocks flying out of the ash clouds. Flying in a 727 at night to Ca. , I think in same year, the pilot tipped wing and we could see the red - orange crater glowing in a circle. The lava dome then grew out of the pit and made for great time lapse videos by Usgs. Mt.Rainier looms over Seattle and our Kent valley is built on a 30’ deep mudflow . While digging foundations, there have been stumps of Cedar trees uncovered with bark shredded to the North . Hoping we don’t see a bigger version of St. Helens . Lots of potential energy above more than 58 people.

Dam , I was 11 years old when that happened, In those days, we thought our cars would be flying by now

Very well done, but the thing that I don't get is that someone to the west of St Helens caught the whole thing on video and you NEVER get to see it! I saw it only once on what I think was a Weather Channel documentary a few years ago. I was very surprised to finally see it in real time video, but I've never seen it again and have no idea who shots it or why you never see it anymore

Perfect video

I remember this on the day it happen shown on the news throughout the world, we'll never forget the aftermath and this shows it exceptional and exactly as it happen, raw earth power, we are just ants on a furnace circulating around a bigger one, amazing shots and terrifying to those who were witnesses, RIP those that were lost.

I can't imagine how horrible that wall of ash must have been to breath after it got to them a few minutes later.

just visited Rainer Seattle Washington...and looks very colossal...flying back home tomorrow phx az sep 2023

What hf ham spectrum was this radio call on

Guuuaauu! Qué impresionante!

the poor guy suffocated

Wow!

I had a dream about 7 months ago about a volcano erupting and I saw the mountain with snow and the lava coming down and people running in hysteria packing the train to get out of there. Everybody was thirsty and screaming while there was ash falling all over. After this dream the Iceland volcano erupted but I couldn't see a train in that area. Mt. St. Helens is the one that is clicking for me. Anybody in the area please stay alert.

Amazing

I wonder if they could have dropped a bunker buster on the mountain a few days in advance and let the gasses leak out so there was no massive eruption. Sorta like, popping a tiny hole in an air mattress and letting the air escape slowly.

Awesome.

Why is the smoke-explosion looking so fake ? As a media designer, I have the impression that this video material could have been manipulated.

That's cool

[The time of] their account has approached for the people, while they are in heedlessness turning away.

山体崩壊してる やっぱり実際の映像と映画とは違う

If you where standing on the opposite side of the mountain, I guess nothing would have happened to you .

*Yellowstone* _That’s cute, hold my beer._ 🍺

It will erupt again in few weeks. Yellowstone too

EXISTIRA PELÍCULA DE ESTE SUCESO??

The AI made it look weird...

バグ？

I feel this mountain had been holding alot of ice inside it... as the volcano had warmed up, the side of the mountain had got water logged and softened the mountain enough that the eruption would blow out to the area of least resistance..

bari teknoloji iyi kullanın oynama çok kötü

Bad luck🤷‍♂️

Question: If they would have did an air strike on top of the mountain if it would of blew straight up instead of sideways.

Jesus. Can you scroll any faster?

dude i WAS LIKE THIS IS FAKE , LOL OF COURSE IT IS

This is what happens when I eat Taco Bell

This was awesome. Sadly, the gentleman who was giving the updates as an eyewitness on that recording, passed away that day. His body was never found.

It will erupt again in few weeks. Yellowstone too

Gary Rosenquist is my uncle, I'm going to share this with him. Thank you for making this.

Thank you very much for creating the video I've been wanting to see since I was 7 years old; the Rosenquist sequence photos with Martin's recording. I've had immense interest in the May 18 eruption for 33 years; an interest to the point that I can also commend you on the sources you cited. "In the Path of Destruction" is by far the best book I've ever read on the subject and the January 1981 National Geographic article is still just as riveting as it was when I read it as a child back in the 1980's. From the standpoint of someone who has read the books and articles, I feel your video captured the same exposition the texts created. A scholarly video based on scholarly reference. Well Done, Sir. P.S. I've always wanted to see what it looked like from Spirit Lake around Ol' Harry's lodge... to see what Harry saw or what David saw...I can only imagine how it would feel at that moment in time. It would be like seeing the waving hand of God.

Amazing to see that sequence of photos put to motion. I was born just three months after the eruption, but my parents up north in Everett say when it erupted, the sound even that far north was as if someone dropped a bowling ball on a hardwood floor in the second story of their house.

The fear Gerry Martin must have felt watching that gigantic ash cloud rush toward him. Amazing eruption sequence, thanks for posting.

3:19 “Gentlemen, the camper and the car sitting to the south of me is covered. It’s going to get me too.” These were the last words of Gerry Martin, a radio operator killed in the eruption. The camper and car he’s referring to were those of David Johnston, a volcanologist also killed in the eruption. Johnston’s last words over radio were “Vancouver, this is it!”

“Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!”

3:17 He reports that he just saw David Johnston die, and that he would be next.

The fact that Gary Martin retained a fairly calm and standard tone of voice while 1,000 degrees of impending doom loomed above him is very impressive. I certainly wouldn't have.

This is very cool. Thanks for putting this together.

As a Boy Scout in the early '60s our Troop spent a week at a campground on the edge of Spirit Lake, very near the foot of the Mt St Helens. At the time of the eruption I was 29 and I lived in small town in Oregon about 60 miles southwest of the mountain, and everyone there could see the eruption cloud as well as later "steam eruptions". We got ashfall a couple of times but fortunately for us it wasn't heavy although even a light dusting of that stuff caused problems, especially for people who breathed in even small amounts. What comes from an eruption isn't really ash, rather tiny particles of pumice stone. Towns east of the mountain received repeated coverings of it, sometimes a foot or more deep.

better, but this still looks cartoonish. AI still has a long way to go. I think just viewing the photos as they were taken is better than trying to animate the sequence.

The man who operated the cameras knew he wouldn't make it and manned the cameras til the end anyways. True grit.

I've hiked several times at MSH. A few years ago, we hiked from Windy Ridge out to Loowitt Falls. We stopped at Bear Meadow where these photos were taken. Unless you have stood there, you can't imagine how big this event was. It was gigantic. Half a mountain sliding away followed by that massive lateral blast. These people were lucky to survive. The road to get there is not a straight drive. It's a very twisty and turning mountain road. If the eruption had happened before sunrise, they wouldn't have seen the lateral blast coming and all would have died.

Just watched this after doing a quick search to find it. Did that as I was reminded of it after finding a small container of ash from the eruption I had saved from the next day (taken off my Dad's car, in Regina, SK, Canada). That's a distance of ~1400 KM/870M to the NW. Very vivid memories of the news broadcasts at the time! This was quite a reminder of that event!

Thank you for this awesome footage. I have seen the stills, but never seen them like this, so thank you very much!!

Що було дальше после 28 секунд взрива сделай видео на тему!!!!!!!!!

The frame at 2:33 really shows how the lateral blast just rocketed past them at incredible speed.

I once read a story about a guy who lived in the Los Angelos area, and as a small boy, experienced a fair sized eartquake there. This shook him out of bed in the middle of the night and frightened him quite deeply, and he vowed to himself to move away from that place. Life, as it often does, got busy, he married and started a family, but he never forgot his pledge to himself about moving. Finally, in his late twenties, he made the move clear out of California and bought a small plot of a few acres of land.....on the lower slopes of Mt St Helens in the state of Washington. Not too long after moving there, the mountain started rumbling, eventually unleashing the enormous blast it did and covered so much with ashes, including his place. I'm not sure of where he eventually relocated after that, but rumor has it he moved to some relatives of his in Oklahoma....right in 'Tornado Alley'. BHE

It's just so preposterous. "Whelp the entire mountain just slid in my direction and a 15,000 foot pyroclastic flow is headed my way at 600 mph." Screw it. Gonna enjoy the view.

the people who took the picture is for sure a daredevil...

当時、日本のNewtonという科学雑誌の創刊号だったかで、このセントヘレナ火山の山体崩壊を特集してた。 まだ10歳だったけど、凄まじい光景の写真に衝撃を受けた覚えがある。

This is AMAZING! are you allowing people to use this under creative commons? I am referring to the animation of the explosion. I plan to do a video for Mound St. Helens for my channel I would love to use the animation you did? ok please let me know and thank you so much!

This is the sort of recreation of the event I always wanted to see. Awesome job.

Visited Mt Saint Helens last year and I was amazed at how much the landscape was changed significantly after the eruption. I couldn’t even explain what I was feeling after standing there admiring the view and knowing that many people had lost their lives.

Didn't know that you had a YT channel 😀 I hope to see you at Mt. St. Helens again this year. Just subbed to your channel, keep up the good work.

Feels like I'm watching an analog horror.

I was 13 living in olympia when mt st helens blew. We heard the eruption, a loud boom and rumble and ran outside to see. It looked like a nuke had gone off. Then the ash started falling like snow until the sky was blacked out. I remember struggling to breathe for days afterwards.

Interesting

An amazing example of the liquefaction of ground without water being present. This was an earthquake induced landslide that turned into an eruption.

The AI upscaling makes this completely ridiculous

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I think you gave a pretty close visual description of what really happened. Thank you

I think there have been many natural disasters in this century and the twentieth. But none can ever be so spectacular or as unbelievable as Mt Saint Helens.

Chilling. Excellent work!

It looks so fake. But so real. I know its real but I cant beleive its real its like someth8jg out of a painting

really impressive sequence, thanks. If Vesuvio volcano in southern italy had to explode, it could take after this. Terrifying

Classical composer Alan Hovhaness's 50th symphony is called "Mount St Helens"

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Soot,ash covered the skies of Salem, Oregon for several days. The streets were of gray, air quality at a all time low.

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I remember watching clips of Mount St. Helens as a kid, and a CGI Animation of what was remored of the Eruption. Since you were there pretty much, do you think this AI created animation is accurate to the explosion?

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OUCH!!! ……The biggest pimple that’s ever popped 🌋👀😣

Thank you for putting thieves work in to use AI as a tool so we can get an idea of the magnitude of this. I home school my children and we are learning about mountains and volcanos now... we read about stratovolcanos and went down a little rabbit hole, ending at Mount St. Helens and my boys asking if they could see any photos or video. We are in awe... while also acknowledging how horrific this was for the people around it. Wow.

the way the landslide and eruption move here makes it seem like its taken straight out of an analog horror film

Can I use this Audio in a sample for a song? Who do I need to talk to about that?

It's a little strange to know that David died in this recording at some point in the video.

Epic

Robert Landsburg died while trying to document the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980. Landsburg was a photographer who found himself near the volcano when it erupted. Instead of fleeing to safety, he chose to stay and continue taking photographs in an attempt to document the event. As the eruption intensified, Landsburg realized he wouldn't survive. In his final moments, he placed his camera inside his backpack to protect the film and lay on top of it, shielding it with his own body. Landsburg's body was later found, and his camera and film were recovered. His courageous actions provided valuable documentation of the eruption and its destructive force.

mayon

Colossal... off-scale... mesmerizing... this should teach us to have more respect for Mother Nature, but I think we haven't learned the lesson yet... nope...

We lived 240 miles away from Mount St. Helens and we still had ash all over everything at our home. I was a teenager at the time and my car was black and covered in ash when i traveled to Portland.