One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried ...

The first sign of activity began in the spring ... to give a precise date scientists tried to predict the eruption of Mount St Helens by measuring the frequency of earthquakes on the mountain.

The zone was based on a presumption that any eruption would go straight up through the summit. Harry Truman, who owned the Mount St. Helens Lodge on Spirit Lake near the mountain, refused to move ...

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake as it was before the May 1980 eruption ... lupines became the first color in a world of sterile ...

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

On May 18th, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted killing 57 people and ... The Columbian has written about every aspect of the eruption — the people who died, including Columbian photographer Reid ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared the entire state of Washington a federal disaster area ...

“High rates of seismicity, interpreted as recharge, have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes ...

Mount St. Helens has recently been swarming with geological activity, which could mean the giant American volcano is gearing up for its next big eruption. Produced by Zach Wasser and Dave Mosher.

For many, the word “eruption” brings to mind 1980 when Mount Saint Helens demonstrated that the Washington Cascades are one of the most volcanically active parts of the country. Mount Saint ...