Aug. 21—The U.S. Forest Service announced on Friday the selection of a head ranger for the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument. There is nobody in the role currently. Jon Gellings has been ...

Is it getting ready to rock? Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach Montana, has been showing major signs of constant activity ...

New research offers clues as to why Mount St. Helens is one of the most explosive volcanoes in the Cascade range and why it stands apart from the chain of other Cascade volcanoes. Scientists from the ...

Saturday marks the 44-year anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption in Washington. The blast on May 18, 1980, is the worst volcanic eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people and spewing 520 million ...

When Mount St. Helens exploded in May 1980, a magnitude-5.1 earthquake triggered a lateral blast that stripped forests, buried valleys in ash, and left a gray, seemingly lifeless moonscape. For years, ...

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 ...

About 400 earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since mid-July, the largest chain of shakes since the volcano finished erupting in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey reported last week. Small ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, it caused enormous devastation. The eruption triggered mudslides, an explosion, and ...

SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. - On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, marking the United States’ most deadly and destructive volcanic eruption to date. Around 8:32 a.m., a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook ...

Mount St. Helens, located in Skamania County, Washington State, is one of the world’s active stratovolcanoes. Positioned 50 miles northeast of Portland and 96 miles south of Seattle, it is part of the ...