Residents of the Pacific Northwest often cast a wary eye toward Mount St. Helens, but airborne ash this week isn’t a sign of a new eruption. That’s according to the U.S. Geological Survey, which ...
USGS says no eruption at Mount St. Helens after winds picked up old ash Thursday, sending it to 12,000 feet and drifting ...
Of every volcano in the contiguous United States, the USGS says Mount St. Helens is the one most likely to erupt again, a ranking that has held since the mountain blew apart its own summit on May 18, ...
After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, experts were faced with a precarious question: How can we best prepare for when—not if—the next volcanic eruption in the Cascade Range occurs? Triggered by a ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks 46 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, claiming 57 lives. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) remembered those lost, ...
On May 18, 1980, 30-year-old scientist David Johnston was in an observation post with the U.S. Geological survey monitoring Mount St. Helens. At 8:32 a.m., a 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck beneath ...
New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...
SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Forty-six years ago today, Mount St. Helens unleashed one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions in United States history, transforming the Pacific Northwest landscape in ...