Nickelback

Chad Kroeger inquired to the hecklers, "Are there any Nickelback fans in Portugal?" The lackluster response led to him and Vikedal displaying a vulgar hand gesture and leaving the stage after only a few songs.(source). [2]. The audience voiced their distaste by throwing bottles and rocks at the stage. On July 2, 2005, the tip of the whaleback feature broke off, causing a rockfall that sent ash and dust several hundred meters into the air. Feeling they didn't fit with the genre of the other bands at the festival, Nickelback were reluctant to do the show; however, despite the predictable result, the money they were offered was so substantial that they couldn't turn it down. While geologists warn that an eruption similar to the May 1980 eruption is still possible, the chances are low. The band was booed offstage at a Portuguese heavy metal Music festival. Helens VolcanoCam [1] located at Johnston Ridge is able to view the new dome especially at night when the glow of new magma is visible via the camera's infrared capabilities.

The similarity of the two songs is only apparent, however, when several parts are edited out of both tracks and the tempo of Someday is elevated. The Mount St. A clever mash-up combined the two songs into a single track, "How You Remind Me of Someday", which has circulated the Internet for years on humor sites and music messageboards. If the growth of the new dome continues at its current pace, the new dome could replace the amount of material lost in the 1980 eruption (estimated at 3.7 billion cubic yards or 2.85 km³) within the next 40-50 years. Critics have often pointed out that "How You Remind Me", a Nickelback song that received extensive airplay in 2001 and 2002, and "Someday", a popular song in 2003, are almost identical except for lyrical content. The 'whaleback' feature is disintegrating steadily but continues to be extruded as solidified lava pushes upward from underneath it. Many fans of Nickelback argue that it is tough to judge the band by their singles, as is the case with many mainstream bands. Growth of the new dome continues steadily and has not abated, and small earthquakes continue to be observed every few minutes.

Nickelback are also heavily criticized as commercial sellouts by grunge fans because of their simple radio-friendly sound, which makes frequent use of digital post-processing. As of May 5, 2005, the highest point on the new dome was 7,675 feet (2339 m), 688 feet (210 m) below the highest point of the volcano. (source). The release was accompanied by a 2.5 earthquake. The fact that Nickelback seldom touches on taboos in their lyrics (profane or otherwise) make their sound a viable option for rock, alternative, and mix stations. This activity was not considered a large eruption, merely a minor release of pressure consistent with the nature of ongoing dome building. "Rockstar" has the band reflecting on the consequences of their new status as recognized musicians; something that is executed with solid ability and thought. Helens had major activity again on March 8, 2005 when a 36,000-foot plume of steam and ash emerged, which was visible from Seattle, Washington and rained ash on Yakima, Washington.

Kroeger deals with nostalgia, friendships and the passage of time in one of the 2005 singles "Photograph". Mount St. Their fifth album, "All the Right Reasons" (2005), sees a progression in their subject matter. The total amount of glacier lost by this date was estimated to be between 5 and 10 percent, but the flow of water out from the crater had changed by almost nothing as the porous nature of the floor of the crater caused the water to be absorbed like a giant sponge. The context provided in Nickelbacks' songs also make it easy to create a mental picture of the subject matter; they seldom if ever speak metaphorically. The diameter of the new dome was about 1,700 feet (518 m) at this time and it then contained about 50 million cubic yards (38.5 million m³) of material. Earlier albums included songs discussing problems many can relate to, such as parental desertion and domestic abuse. The 'whaleback' feature measured approximately 1,550 feet (472 m) in length and 500 feet (152 m) in width.

As many bands, Nickelback's lyrics deal mostly with either acquirring romance, the loss of romance, or the transition between love and hate in relationships. This brought its elevation to 1,363 feet (415 m) above the 1980 crater floor, approximately 2,000 feet (610 meters) above the surface of the crater glacier, and 721 feet (220 meters) below the highest point of the volcano. The result is radio friendly hard rock with no frills; save some dubbing in a few of their songs for dramatic effect ("Figured You Out"). On February 1, 2005, the new lava dome on Mount Saint Helens measured 7,642 feet (2,329 m) in elevation. The frontman Chad Kroeger is the dominant element; his vocals sustain the songs through verse and hook. Currently, the whaleback is still growing but crumbling nearly as rapidly as it is growing. Nickelback's style is best described as hard rock; no electronic sounds or DJs gueststar in their songs. The edges of it began crumbling rapidly, forming loose material around the new dome.

On that morning, they were on their tour bus traveling across Pennsylvania less than 10 miles from where Flight 93 crashed. This interesting feature was very hot but fragile. Silver Side Up was released on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. Included in the new dome was a feature dubbed the 'whaleback' (named such due to its close resemblance to the back of a whale), which was a long shaft of solidified magma being exuded by pressure of magma underneath it. Their second album, The State, propelled them to the mainstream with two Top 10 hits and the follow up album Silver Side Up, with 2002's most-played single How You Remind Me, gave them superstar status, scoring multi-format smashes on every album since. Magma reached the surface of the volcano around October 11, 2004, resulting in the building of a new lava dome on the existing dome's south side. Nickelback was helped early on by Cancon, the Canadian law requiring a certain percentage of music played on Canadian radio to be from Canadian musical artists. Helens became active again in autumn 2004, indicated initially by hundreds and then thousands of localized earthquakes, and followed by several significant emissions of steam and ash.

They are now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mount St. The core of the band hails from Hanna, Alberta. Later, in 1995, 1998, and 2001, earthquake swarms were recorded beneath the crater, though without explosive activity. . Between 1989 and 1991, a series of seismic events occurred, sometimes accompanied by small explosions from the dome. The name derived from the nickel in change Mike Kroeger frequently had to give customers back in his job at a Starbucks coffee shop. that is growing.

Nickelback is a post-grunge rock band founded in western Canada in 1995. Until the beginning of the volcanic activity of 2004, it was considered the only glacier in the lower 48 states of the U.S.
. As of 2004, it covers about 0.36 square mile (0.93 km²). The Punisher (March 23, 2004) Slow Motion. Beginning with the winter snows of 1980-1981, a still unnamed horse shoe-shaped glacier began to evolve in the shadow of the crater. Kid Rock). Numerous small explosions and dome-building eruptions occurred during this time.

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (June 24, 2003) Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting) (Elton John cover, feat. Helens, with a new lava dome forming in the crater. Daredevil (February 4, 2003) Learn the Hard Way. Between 1980 and 1986, activity continued on St. Live At Home (DVD above) (October 29, 2002) Mistake. In addition, 200 homes, 47 bridges, and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed. Jerry Cantrell). Fifty-seven people were killed along with 1500 elk, 5000 deer, and an estimated 11 million fish.

Live At Home (DVD above) (October 29, 2002) It Ain't Like That (Alice in Chains cover, feat. Helens' height by about 1300 feet (400 m) and left a 1 to 2 mile (1.6 to 3.2 km) wide and 0.5 mile (800 m) deep crater with its north end open in a huge breach. Spider-Man (May 3, 2002) Hero (Only featured as a bonus on the Spider-Man DVD). The removal of the north side of the mountain reduced St. The Scorpion King (March 26, 2002) Yanking Out My Heart. Helens released an amount of energy equivalent to 27,000 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs and ejected more than a cubic kilometer of material. Nickelback - Photo Album (October 4, 2005). In all, St.

Nickelback - The Videos (September 23, 2003). on May 18 the vertical ash column declined in stature and less severe outbursts continued through the night and following several days. Nickelback - Live At Home (October 29, 2002). By around 5:30 p.m. (2x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #13 UK, #2 AUS. A total of 3.9 million cubic yards (3.0 million m³) of material was transported by the lahars. All the Right Reasons (October 4, 2005) #1 CAN (2x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #1 U.S. The lahars flowed many miles down the Toutle River and Cowlitz River, destroying bridges and lumber camps.

(3x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #5 UK. Helens mixed with ice, snow, and water to create lahars (volcanic mudflows). The Long Road (September 23, 2003) #1 CAN (4x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #6 U.S. The collapse of the northern flank of St. (6x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #1 UK, #1 CAN, #4 DE. The plume moved eastward at an average speed of 60 miles per hour (95 km/h), with ash reaching Idaho by noon. Silver Side Up (September 11, 2001) #1 CAN (8x Platinum)^{[citation needed]}, #2 U.S. For more than nine hours, a vigorous plume of ash erupted, eventually reaching 12 to 15 miles (20 to 25 km) above sea level.

The State (March 7, 2000) #11 CAN, #130 U.S. This eruption was a 5 on the Volcanic Explosivity Index scale. Curb (1996) re-released (June 25, 2002). Helens burst forth into a large-scale pyroclastic flow which flattened vegetation and buildings in an area of over 230 square miles (600 km²). Hesher (Demo EP) (1996). The magma inside of St. Daniel Adair - Drums and Vocal. This was the largest known debris avalanche in recorded history.

Mike Kroeger - Bass. With little warning, a second Richter magnitude 5.1 earthquake triggered a massive collapse of the north face of the mountain on May 18. Ryan Peake - Guitar and Backing Vocals. By the end of April, the north side of the mountain started to bulge. Chad Kroeger - Lead Vocals and Guitars. Steam venting started on March 27. Helens woke up on March 20, 1980, with a Richter magnitude 5.1 earthquake.

Mount St. The vent apparently was at or near Goat Rocks on the northeast flank. There were at least a dozen small eruptions between 1831 to 1857 of ash reported as well, including a fairly large one in 1842. The ash drifted northeast over central and eastern Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana.

The 1800 eruption probably rivalled the May 18, 1980 eruption in size, although unlike the 1980 eruption, it did not result in massive destruction of the cone. As with the Kalama cycle, the sequence of events started with an explosion of dacite tephra followed by an andesite lava flow and then culminated with the emplacement of a dacite dome. The 57 year long Goat Rocks Eruptive Period started in 1800 and is the first cycle for which oral and written records exist. 150 years of quiet returned to the volcano.

Helens reached its greatest height and highly symmetrical form by the time the Kalama eruptive cycle ended on or around 1647. St. Lateral explosions excavated a notch in southeast crater wall. Large parts of the dome's sides broke away and mantled parts of the volcano's cone with talus.

The several hundred foot high dome filled and overtopped an explosion crater already at the summit. This cycle ended with the emplacement of a large dacite dome at the volcano's summit. Later, pyroclastic flows raced down over the andesite lava and into the Kalama River valley. Helens' summit crater down the volcano's southeast flank.

After that, blocky andesite lava flowed from St. The next phase of this 150 year long cycle saw the eruption of less silica-rich lava in the form of andesitic ash that formed at least eight alternating light and dark-colored layers of ash. The source for at least some of these debris flows may have come from the explosion of a dacite dome close to or at the summit. Helens' west flanks and into the Kalama River drainage system.

Large pyroclastic flows and mudflows subsequently rushed down St. Ash and pumice piled to a thickness of three feet (1 m) six miles (9.5 km) northeast from the volcano and two inches (5 cm) deep 50 miles (80 km) away in the same direction. At least seven different beds were laid down in the most voluminous eruptive cycle for 3000 years. In 1482, another large eruption rivaling the 1980 eruption in volume is known to have occurred.

The eruption in 1480 was several times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption. Roughly 700 years of dormancy was broken about the year 1480 when large amounts of pale gray dacite pumice and ash started to erupt in the Kalama eruptive cycle. This period ended with the emplacement of dacite domes, including Sugar Bowl around the year 800. Helens' north flank.

Sometime around the year 400, the Sugar Bowl Eruptive Period began with small quantities of ash and lava erupted from St. Another 400 or so years of dormancy ensued. Also around the 1st century, mudflows moved 30 miles (50 km) down Toutle and Kalama river valleys and may have reached the Columbia River. Others, such as Cave Basalt (known for its system of lava tubes), flowed up to 8 to 9 miles (13 to 15 km) from their vents.

Large lava flows of andesite and basalt covered parts of the mountain, including one around the year 100 that traveled all the way into the Lewis and Kalama river valleys. Also different was the presence of significant lava flows in addition to the previously much more common fragmented and pulverized lavas and rocks (tephra). It was during the Castle Creek Period that the pre-1980 summit cone started to form. Helens' lava, which diversified by adding olivine and basalt to the mix.

The next eruptive cycle, the Castle Creek Eruptive Period, began roughly around 400 BC and is characterized by a change in composition of St. A large mudflow partly filled 40 miles (65 km) of the Lewis River valley sometime between 1000 BC to 500 BC. Helens' flanks and came to rest in nearby valleys. Numerous dense nearly red hot pyroclastic flows sped down St.

This cycle, which lasted until about 800 BC, is characterized by smaller volume eruptions. Helens came alive again around 1200 BC after 400 years of dormancy. At the beginning of the Pine Creek Eruptive Period, St. All told there may have been up to 2.5 cubic miles (10 km³) of material ejected in this cycle.

Rainier National Park and trace amounts have been found as far northeast as Banff National Park in Alberta and as far southeast as eastern Oregon. This eruptive cycle lasted until about 1600 BC and left 18 inch (46 cm) deep deposits of material 50 miles (80 km) distant in what is now Mt. Helens during the Holocene, judging by the volume of one of the tephra layers from that eruptive period. St.

An eruption in 1900 BC was the largest known eruption from Mt. Starting around 2500 BC, the Smith Creek Eruptive Period began with eruptions of large amounts of ash and yellowish-brown pumice covered thousands of square miles. The period since about 2500 BC is called the "Spirit Lake Stage". 20–18,000 years ago), and the "Swift Creek Stage" (roughly 13–8,000 years ago).

The early eruptive stages of the volcano are known as the "Ape Canyon Stage" (around 40–35,000 years ago), the "Cougar Stage" (ca. Repeated eruptions of pyroclastic flows, pumice, and ash followed until about 8500 BC when the volcano went dormant for roughly 6000 years. The four stages were interspersed with very long periods of dormancy or low activity levels lasting for up to a few thousand years. Helens is known to have erupted in four major stages, the present having begun around 2500 BC after 6000 years of dormancy.

St. Mt. Parts of this ancestral cone were fragmented and transported by glaciers 14,000 to 18,000 years ago during the last ice age. Helens' eruptive cycles).

36,000 years ago a large mudflow cascaded down the volcano (mudflows were very significant forces in all of St. Helens started growth in the Pleistocene 37,600 years ago with dacite and andesite eruptions of pumice and ash. According to geological evidence, St. Following the 1980 eruption, the area was left to gradually return to its natural state preceding the devastation.

Helens National Volcanic Monument, a 110,000 acre (445 km²) area around the mountain and within the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Congress established the Mount St. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Helens.".

Their film became a popular and top-selling documentary "The Eruption of Mount St. A second eruption occurred on May 25, but the crew survived and were rescued two days following the second eruption by National Guard helicopter pilots. Their compasses, however, spun in circles and they quickly became lost. Helens on May 23 to document the destruction.

A film crew, led by Seattle filmmaker Otto Seiber, was dropped by helicopter on St. President Jimmy Carter surveyed the damage and stated it looked more desolate than a moonscape. U.S. Had the eruption occurred one day later, when loggers would have been at work, rather than on a Sunday, the death toll would almost certainly have been much higher.

In total, 57 people were killed or never found. His body was never found after the May 18, 1980 eruption, which left a huge crater open to the north (see geology section below). Helens eruption, 84 year old innkeeper Harry Truman, who had lived near the mountain for over 50 years, became nationally famous when he decided not to evacuate before the impending eruption, despite repeated pleas by local authorities. During the lead-up to the 1980 Mount St.

This was the first reported activity from the volcano since 1854 and the last until 1980. The lack of a significant ash layer associated with this event indicates that it was a small eruption, which may have been nothing more than billowing clouds of steam and dust. to be in a state of eruption". Helens, or some other mount to the southward, is seen . . .

On April 17, 1857 the Republican, a Steilacoom, Washington newspaper, reported that "Mount St. Warre's work showed erupting material from a vent about a third of the way down from the summit on the mountain's west or northwest side (possibly at Goat Rocks), while one of Kane's field sketches shows smoke emanating from about the same location. Warre sketched the eruption in 1845 and two years later Canadian painter Paul Kane created watercolors of the gently smoking mountain. British lieutenant Henry J.

The story went that the injured man sought treatment at Fort Vancouver but the contemporary fort commissary steward, Napolean McGilvery, disclaimed knowledge of the incident. Burnett in October 1843 recounted a story of a Native American man who badly burned his foot and leg in either lava or hot ash while hunting for deer. Future California governor Peter H. Ash from this eruption may have reached The Dalles, Oregon 48 miles (80 km) southeast of the volcano.

Helens in eruption on November 22, 1842. The Reverend Josiah Parrish in Champoeg, Oregon witnessed Mount St. All these eruptions were likely phreatic (steam explosions). Large ash clouds were reported for this small volume outburst and mild explosions followed for 15 years.

In either late fall or early winter 1842 the so-called "Great Eruption" was seen by settlers and missionaries in the area. Another member of the expedition later described "cellular basaltic lavas" at the mountain's base. Exploring Expedition, saw the peak (then quiescent) from off the mouth of the Columbia River in 1841. James Dwight Dana of Yale University, while sailing with the Charles Wilkes U.S.

He sent an account to the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, which published his letter in January 1836. Meredith Gairdner, then working for the Hudson's Bay Company stationed at Fort Vancouver (the first geologist apparently viewed the volcano 6 years later). Helens eruption was made in March 1835 by Dr. The first authenticated eyewitness report of a St.

They did report the presence of quicksand and clogged channel conditions at the mouth of the Sandy River near Portland, suggesting an eruption by Mount Hood sometime in the previous decades. Helens from the Columbia River but did not report any eruption in progress or recent evidence of one. In late 1805 and early 1806 members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition spotted St. Alarmed by the "dry snow", the Nespelim of northeastern Washington spent a great deal of time in prayer and dance instead of collecting food for winter and therefore had a hard winter.

Much later geologists and historians determined that the eruption took place in 1800 and was the start of the 57 year long Goat Rocks Eruptive Period (see geology section below). Years later, the mountain was visited by its first major eruption after explorers, traders, and missionaries heard reports of an erupting volcano in the area. Vancouver named the mountain for British diplomat Alleyne Fitzherbert, 1st Baron St Helens on October 20, 1792, as it came into view when the Discovery passed into the mouth of the Columbia River. Helens by Europeans was by Royal Navy Commander George Vancouver and the officers of HMS Discovery on May 19, 1792, while they were surveying the northern Pacific Ocean coast from 1792 to 1794.

The first recorded sighting of Mount St. Helens, but some land owned by Washington is in private hands. Gifford Pinchot National Forest surrounds Mount St. The community nearest the volcano is Cougar, Washington which is in the Lewis River valley about 11 miles (18 km) south-southwest of the peak.

That major north-south highway skirts the low-lying cities of Castle Rock, Longview and Kelso along the Cowlitz River and passes through Vancouver, Washington-Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area less than 50 miles (80 km) to the southwest. Washington State Route 504, locally known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, connects with the heavily traveled Interstate 5 at Exit 49, about 34 miles (55 km) to the west of the mountain. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington the best access routes to the mountain run through Cowlitz County, Washington on the west. Although Mount St.

The southern and eastern sides of the volcano drain into an upstream impoundment, the Swift Reservoir, which is directly south of the volcano's peak. The Lewis River is impounded by three dams for hydroelectric power generation. Helens a year, according to National Weather Service data. The streams are fed by abundant rain and snow that dump an average of about 140 inches (3.6 m) of water on Mount St.

Streams that head on the volcano enter three main river systems — the Toutle River on the north and north-west, the Kalama River on the west, and the Lewis River on the south and east. At the pre-eruption timberline (upper limit of trees) the width of the cone was about 4 miles (6.4 km). The mountain is about 6 miles (9.5 km) across at its base which is at an altitude of about 4,400 feet (1340 m) on the northeastern side and about 4,000 feet (1220 m) elsewhere. The peak rose more than 5,000 feet (1500 m) above its base, where the lower flanks merge with adjacent ridges.

It stood out prominently, however, from surrounding hills because of the symmetry and the extensive snow and ice-cover of the pre-1980 summit cone, earning it the nickname, "Fujiyama of America" or "Mount Fuji of America". Its summit altitude made it only the fifth highest peak in Washington. Helens was not one of the highest peaks in the Cascade Range. Even before its loss of height, Mount St.

The volcano is also known to have been the most active in the Cascades within the last 10,000 years. It was formed only within the last 40,000 years, and the pre-1980 summit cone started to grow only about 2200 years ago. Helens is geologically young compared to the other major Cascade volcanoes. Mount St.

Helens. Mount Hood, the nearest major volcanic peak in Oregon, is about 60 miles (95 km) southeast of Mount St. These "sister and brother" volcanic mountains are each about 50 miles (80 km) from Mount Rainier, the giant of Cascade volcanoes. Helens is 34 miles (55 km) almost due west of Mount Adams, which is in the eastern part of the Cascade Range.

Mount St. . Helens is a part of the Pacific Ring of Fire which includes over 160 active volcanoes. Mount St.

Helens' 1980 eruption. These were destroyed in St. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit; another formed Goat Rocks dome on the northern flank. Helens includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted.

Mount St. Helens is a great cone of rubble consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice and other deposits. Like most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, St. However, the scale of it still pales in comparison to far larger debris avalanches that have occurred in the geological past elsewhere on Earth.

The debris avalanche from the 1980 eruption was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.3 km³) in volume, making it the largest in recorded history. Helens for more detail). The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing its summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,364 feet (2,550 m) in elevation and replacing it with a mile-wide (1.5 km-wide) horseshoe-shaped crater (see geology section or 1980 eruption of Mount St. Fifty-seven people were killed and 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways and 185 miles (300 km) of highway were destroyed.

That eruption was the most deadly and economically destructive volcanic eruption in the history of the United States. It is most famous for the catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows. It was named for British diplomat Lord St Helens who was a friend of George Vancouver, an explorer who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century.

The mountain is part of the Cascade Range and was initially known as Louwala-Clough which means "smoking or fire mountain" in the language of the local native Americans, the Klickitats. It is located 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Helens is an active stratovolcano in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Mount St.