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

Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach Montana, has ...

VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN) -- Scientists were flying over the crater of Mount St. Helens on Wednesday to locate the origins of a plume of ash and steam that spewed nearly seven miles high into ...

the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried under millions of tons of lava, ash, mud, and avalanche ...

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake ... more than three billion cubic yards of mud, ash, and melting snow—avalanched into it.

The Columbia Theatre in Longview, Washington, is celebrating its centennial. Theater officials say the 1980 eruption of Mount ...

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 ...

Then, on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted sending rock and debris down river valleys from the volcano. Ash flew 15 miles into the sky, and wind swept that across 22,000 square miles.