Thirty years (and one day) ago, Mount St. Helens blew its top. Or rather, its side. After months of heightened seismic activity, a 5.1 magnitude earthquake caused the flank of the mountain to suddenly ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory will remain closed to the public until at least 2026 due to road repairs on Spirit Lake Highway, a Washington State Department of ...
A minor earthquake was detected near Morton, Washington, on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake occurred at approximately 7:52 a.m., north of Mount St. Helens and ...
On the morning of May 18, 1980, photographer Robert Landsburg hiked 7 miles from the summit of Mount St. Helens in the Cascades mountain range. As the lens of his camera viewed the snowy cap of the ...
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MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...
The story you're about to see is something truly special, because beneath the ash that fell from Mount St. Helens on May 18th, 1980, are clues to some mysteries that have never been fully solved. So ...