# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-a-johnston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:06:39.430Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-a-johnston"
name: "David A. Johnston"
slug: "david-a-johnston"
description: "David Alexander Johnston was an American United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist who was killed by the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington. A principal scientist on the USGS monitoring team, Johnston was killed in the eruption while manning an observation post six miles (10 km) away on the morning of May 18, 1980. He was the first to report the eruption, transmitting \"Vancouver! Vancouver! This is it!\" before he was swept away by a lateral blast; despite a thorough search, Johnston's body was never found, but state highway workers discovered remnants of his USGS trailer in 1993."
tagline: "American volcanologist (1949–1980)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MSH80_David_Johnston_at_camp_05-17-80_med_III.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1949-12-18"
deathDate: "1980-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             10
  historical:           15.389928
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump