In 1980, Washington State's Mount St Helens erupted, resulting in 57 human deaths, the most ever recorded for a volcanic ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. (AP) - A new lava dome is growing on Mount St. Helens, with volcanic rock reaching the surface of the crater after weeks of seismic activity, scientists said Tuesday.

Mount St. Helens continued to reveal its inner self yesterday as additional glowing lava pushed to the surface in the volcano's crater. The hot rocks -- incandescent and solid, not ropy, red liquid ...

Don't panic: Mount St. Helens is not erupting. Officials confirmed on Sept. 16 that Mount St. Helens does have ash surrounding it after commercial pilots reported seeing ash near the mountain, famous ...

Smoke billows from the mouth of Mt. Shasta like a thunderous cough. Within moments, clear skies turn gray, and the sun vanishes behind thick, shifting layers of volcanic gas and ash. Visitors snap ...

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 ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. — Mount St. Helens erupted 40 years ago, on May 18, 1980, sending a plume of ash and smoke into the sky and claiming 57 lives on the ground. But for months leading up the ...

It’s been 45 years since an eruption occurred on the U.S. mainland. The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth spruce ...

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Tourists scrambled to get away from a volcanic eruption in Italy on June 2. Mount Etna, located on the eastern coast of Sicily and one of Europe's most active volcanoes, sent an ash cloud into the air ...