This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St.

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 ...

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, before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three ...

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 ...

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

The most recent, 640,000 years ago, was a thousand times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, which killed 57 people in Washington. But numbers do not capture the full scope of the ...

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.

A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980. Other case studies include the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1974 and Heimaey eruption in ...

The total economic impact was estimated at $1 billion. The 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens, located in Washington just 50 miles from Mount Rainier, also produced a dangerous lahar that ...