The La Garita Caldera eruption was one of the three most destructive volcanic events in Earth’s history. It released ten ...

In 1980, Washington State's Mount St Helens erupted, resulting in 57 human deaths, the most ever recorded for a volcanic ...

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 ...

The warning did not arrive as a single dramatic sign but as a slow distortion of a familiar peak. As the north side of Mount ...

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 ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...

Don't panic: Mount St. Helens is not erupting. Officials confirmed on Sept. 16 that Mount St. Helens does have ash surrounding it after commercial pilots reported seeing ash near the mountain, famous ...

Thirty-eight years ago, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, spewing ash, rock, and hot gasses into the air and causing mud to flow down the mountainsides. The eruption took place on May 18, 1980, ...

ST HELENS, Wash. — 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.