The eruption triggered mudslides, an explosion, and plumes of ash that did enormous damage. The death of 57 people led to large changes in how the US monitors and prepares for eruptions. On May 18, ...

“In front of me was the eruption up in the sky, and in the living room behind me was the news broadcast telling us what was going on closer up there,” Kemery recalls of that infamous day in Northwest ...

It was a quiet Sunday morning, at 8:32 a.m., 38 years ago when Mount St. Helens blew its top, sending tons of ash into the sky. The volcano had been quiet since the 1850s, but in 1980, geologists were ...

Sunday marks the anniversary of the May 18, 1980, volcanic eruption that rocked the Northwest. Geologist Carolyn Driedger recounts the haunting day before that catastrophic event — and its lasting ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists in Portland, Oregon, assured people that Mount St. Helens was not erupting after clouds of ash became visible in the air. "The winds are slowly in the ...

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