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 ...

Around 12:50 p.m. Feb. 19, the Volcano Rescue Team (VRT) was dispatched to a reported avalanche burial near Shoestring Gully, ...

Jan. 3—Registration is still open for the Mount St. Helens Institute's 12-week Volcano Naturalist Program, which runs Feb. 4 to April 29. Participants in this program will explore diverse aspects of ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of small earthquakes have been recorded at Mount St. Helens in recent months. Scientists with the United States Geological Survey believe the elevated seismic activity could ...

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 ...

And although those volcano eruptions are not part of a trend, experts have said, the volcanoes in question are far from the ...