While other eruptions such as those from Yellowstone Caldera, Long Valley Caldera, and various Alaskan volcanoes, may have been larger in prehistoric times, the Mount St. Helens eruption is the largest in recorded U.S. history, sending ash as far as the central United States, and causing the largest landslide in recorded history.
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