Lori Dengler | Mount St. Helens after 45 years: Where will our next eruption come from?

What scientists have learned from Mount St. Helens’ devastating eruption, 45 years later

It was 45 years ago today when Mount St. Helens erupted, triggering the biggest landslide in Earth’s recorded history and creating an ash cloud that reached across the country. John Yang looks back at the deadliest and most destructive volcanic eruption in U.S. history with Steve Olson, author of “Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens.”

Landscape still bears the scars of Mount St. Helens eruption 45 years later

Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, killing 57 people and reshaping the landscape of southwest Washington, which still bears the scars of that devastating event. Diane Murphy was living on a ranch on a hill overlooking Yakima on May 18, 1980. She recorded audio cassettes to send to a friend back home in Iowa. In one of those recordings, she described what it was like when the eruption happened. In 2020, she shared that recordin…

Canadians recall blast, fine ash from 1980 volcanic eruption at Mount St. Helens

It's been 45 years since the Mount St. Helens eruption in Washington state. British Columbians who were young adults at the time remember how the sky changed as the volcanic ash arrived.

Mount St. Helens eruption remembered 45 years later

Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted, casting clouds of black smoke and ash hundreds of miles into the Inland Empire. The eruption on May 18, 1980, claimed 57 lives and caused extensive damage to homes and infrastructure. The ashfall was so dense that windshield wipers struggled to clear it, and headlights barely

Lori Dengler | Mount St. Helens after 45 years: Where will our next eruption come from?

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 over an area of 229 square miles. The blast and ensuing debris avalanche removed the upper 1,307 feet of the volcano, changing the landscape forever. Ash from the main eruptive plume reached a height of 80,000 feet, piercing the stratosphere and spe…

45 years after eruption, Mount St. Helens museum update focuses on 'bigger picture'

Parks staff say new exhibits will center the eruption in the ongoing story of the mountain rather than treating it as a single isolated event.