Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...
SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Mount St. Helens erupted 40 years ago, on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash and smoke into the sky and claiming 57 lives on the ground. But for months leading up the ...
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens led to better seismic monitoring, increasing seismometers in the Pacific Northwest from a dozen to over 700. Mount St. Helens environment recovering 45 years ...
Mount Saint Helens is the biggest volcanic eruption in United States history, and this weekend marked 45 years. The eruption and the following landslide killed 57 people, destroyed 200 homes, and ...
ST HELENS, Wash. — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened. Scientists describe the destruction as “moonscaped,” and at the time, it was ...
Sunday, May 18 marks 45 years since the disastrous eruption of Mount St. Helens. Fifty-seven people were killed and it remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. At 8:32 a.m. on May 18, ...
CASCADES VOLCANO OBSERVATORY — 'First, Mt. Saint Helens is NOT erupting.' That was the message from the National Weather Service office in Portland this morning. NWS says volcanic ash from when Mt. St ...
It may look a bit like it, but Mount St. Helens is not erupting Tuesday morning. The ash you can see blowing around the volcano is actually remnants of the infamous 1980 eruption. Webcams provided by ...
Mount St. Helens looked like it might be erupting again. Commercial pilots flying in the area Tuesday reported clouds of fine volcanic ash rising into the air above the collapsed dome of the Cascades’ ...