SEATTLE -- A camera disappeared in the Cascades and with it, the images of a lifetime. Descending Mt St Helens, Greg Lentsch spotted an object very out of place. "There's just something glimmering, so ...
Strong winds across parts of Washington state have kicked up volcanic ash deposited during the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.
SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash — Sunday marked 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, sending ash, lava, mud and debris flowing down the mountainside. Fifty-seven people were killed. To this day, it is still ...
Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...
MT. ST. HELENS, Wash — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago Sunday when the sleeping giant woke up and erupted into Pacific ...
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 ...
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ST HELENS, Wash. — When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened. Scientists describe the destruction as “moonscaped,” and at the time, it was ...
Mount St. Helens in Washington State was once the "Mount Fuji of America"—admired for its symmetrical cone shape similar to Japan's highest peak. It was a popular Pacific Northwest destination, ...