Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted covering the region in ... noticed a line of steam coming from a fracture line atop the growing lava dome in the crater of the southwest Washington ...

One of the most violent natural disasters of our time, the colossal eruption of Mt. St. Helens in 1980 blasted away an entire mountainside. Over 200 square miles of pristine forest were buried ...

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 ...

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.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square miles (57,000 square kilometers), according to the USGS. This blistering ...

On May 18, 1980, Washington’s Mount St. Helens covered 22,000 square miles with 540 million tons of ash. A few years later, scientists unleashed gophers onto part of the lifeless mountainside ...

Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach ... have been observed in the past at Mount St. Helens and at other volcanoes and ...