The Ottosens opened The Museum of Mount St. Helens, featuring vehicles, logging equipment, and personal items found in the debris following the May 18, 1980 eruption. Most of the original owners ...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens was catastrophic and caused the wipeout of various species, demanding a revival of the lost ...

W hen Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...

Some of the most breathtaking photos of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens were taken by a graduate student camped nearby. Even more impressive, he took them while trying to outrun the enormous ...

A historical theater in Cowlitz County that would not be standing if it weren’t for the eruption of Mount St. Helens celebrated its centennial over the weekend. The historic Columbia Theatre in ...

Some certainly emanate from events that occurred (or not) one evening in 1924 in a canyon—ever since known as Ape Canyon (elevation: 4,200 feet)—southeast of Mount St. Helens. A group of miners shot ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...