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 ...

May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 killed dozens of people and reshaped the volcanic peak in the Cascade ...

To residents of a certain age, it almost seems like it was yesterday. But Sunday, remarkably, marked the 45th anniversary of a cataclysmic explosion on Mount St. Helens. In a matter of seconds on the ...

On May 18, 1980, the United States experienced the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in its history. After more than two months of rumbling, Washington state's Mount St. Helens erupted ...

It’s been 45 years since an eruption occurred on the U.S. mainland. The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth spruce ...

Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz River each year. And ...

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, ...

Dwight R. “Rocky” Crandell, one of the scientists who accurately predicted that Mount St. Helens would erupt before the end of the 20th century, has died of a heart attack at age 86. When Mount St.