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Read how the engineers came together to solve a problem they never anticipated, especially after being told the mountain ...
Stunning, historic front-page coverage from The Oregonian reporters Les Zaitz and Steve Jenning reports the confusion and ...
According to the USGS, Mount St. Helens is the most active volcano in the lower 48 states and the most likely in the Cascades to erupt again.
Flashback: After months of blowing off steam, the mountain erupted at 8:32am, killing 57 people, blotting out the sun across ...
Color photos shot in 1980 from the cockpit of a Cessna 150 reveal the magnitude of Mount St. Helens' ash and destruction amid ...
The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...
57 people died in the eruption, but the disaster gave scientists a way to develop monitoring tools, improving their ability ...
Aerial view of the May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens as seen from the southwest ... the horizon of Northwest cities like Seattle and Portland. “These mountains — we thought of ...
It was 45 years ago today when Mount St. Helens erupted, triggering the biggest landslide in Earth’s recorded history and creating an ash cloud that reached across the country. John Yang looks back at ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Michael Cairns will never forget May 18, 1980. That's the day that Mount St. Helens erupted, flattening miles of forestland and blanketing the Pacific Northwest in ash.
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 ...
Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state. The deadly eruption happened shortly after 8:30 a.m. on May 18, 1980, following months of small explosions and earthquakes.