It was small by volcanic standards, but massive by human ones: on this day in 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in what the ...
Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...
It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.
Sunday marks 45 years since Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington state. The deadly eruption happened shortly after 8:30 a.m. on May 18, 1980, following months of small explosions and earthquakes.