Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 18 marks the 45th anniversary of the catastrophic eruption of Mount St. Helens in southwestern Washington. The blast in 1980 ...

The 1980 blast remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in U.S. history. More than 300 miles from the volcano, cities like Pullman, Washington, and Moscow, Idaho, were covered in ash. A 23-year-old ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. – Nearly 45 years after Mount St. Helens’ eruption sent almost 90 billion cubic feet of debris into the upper Toutle Valley, millions of tons of sediment still pour into the Cowlitz ...

Everybody saw the eruption coming. Nobody could have predicted how bad it would be. The devastating eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, was a global event in more ways than one: As ash from ...

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Mount St. Helens in Washington State was once the "Mount Fuji of America"—admired for its symmetrical cone shape similar to Japan's highest peak. It was a popular Pacific Northwest destination, ...

For over a century, geologists were baffled by the rolling mounds scattered across Northern California's Shasta Valley. Travelers along Interstate 5 can glimpse these unusual hills and ridges, often ...

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 Cascade ...