The year without a summer In the spring of 1815, things were looking up for Canada. Local Canadian militia, along with ...

How explosive each eruption is can be measured on a scale known as the Volcanic Explosivity Index. This is similar to the ... Prior to this, the massive 1815 magnitude-seven eruption of Tambora in ...

Mount Saint Helens is the biggest volcanic eruption in United States history, and this weekend marked 45 years. The eruption and the following landslide killed 57 people, destroyed 200 homes, and ...

author of “Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens.” It was 45 years ago today that Mount St. Helens, a volcano 50 miles north of Portland, Oregon exploded in a spectacular and ...

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 ...

The eruption heard across the globe happened 45 years ago on May 18, 1980. The loss of life and property was expansive across southwest Washington. The KOIN+ special will take a look back at the ...

RELATED: Mount St. Helens eruption: See rare footage of the 1980 eruption from KGW archives Though Mount St. Helens remains an active volcano, Coburn said there's no reason to panic, and there ...

In 2019, mountain lions, pumas and black bears were all observed on nature cameras for the first time since the eruption. Donald Brown is the Lead Scientist for Mount St. Helens with the U.S ...

In 2004, for example, researchers had about a week’s notice before a minor eruption at Mount St. Helens. In 1980, there was only one instrument on the mountain. By 2004, there were many ...

ST HELENS, Wash — Engineers who spent the days and years following the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens working on the recovery of the region, returned Tuesday to check in on some of their work.

See 50 photos from the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption in a gallery at the end of this story It was early morning on Mount St. Helens when the volcano shook the Earth. Accompanied by a magnitude 5 ...