Ian Reed calls himself a “weather geek” and he had been anticipating Saturday afternoon’s lightning storm all day. A nature photographer, Reed works for the nonprofit Mount St. Helens Institute which ...
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 — Sunday marked 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, sending ash, lava, mud and debris flowing down the mountainside. Fifty-seven people were killed. To this day, it is still ...
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, ...
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It was a quiet Sunday morning, at 8:32 a.m., 38 years ago when Mount St. Helens blew its top, sending tons of ash into the sky. The volcano had been quiet since the 1850s, but in 1980, geologists were ...
Mount St. Helens in Washington State was once the "Mount Fuji of America"—admired for its symmetrical cone shape similar to Japan's highest peak. It was a popular Pacific Northwest destination, ...
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 ...
The Mount St. Helens visitor center is reopening its doors with the first major renovations since it opened in 1986. Starting on Saturday, the center will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Prior to ...