A minor earthquake was detected near Morton, Washington, on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...

When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It was clear the land would take a long time to recover from the eruption. But ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption that led to the widespread destruction ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists are baffled as to where Mount St. Helens gets its lava from. Though the volcano is part of a cluster of volcanoes known as the North American Cascade Arc ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Scientists are baffled as to where Mount St. Helens gets its lava. Though the volcano is part of a cluster of volcanoes known as the North American Cascade Arc ...

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 ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours.

Washington state's Mount St. Helens ... They are much more likely to erupt to form fluid lava flows, while St. Helens' magmas either form very slow-moving domes of lava, or erupt explosively." ...

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake ... growing a new lava dome in its crater, and captivating sightseers and geologists.