(CNN) — For a moment, it seemed like a blast from the past: a plume over Mount St. Helens on Tuesday looked like the volcano might be erupting again. But fortunately, this was not an eruption — just a ...

May 18, 2025, marks the 45th anniversary of Mount St. Helens' eruption — a catastrophic event that transformed the landscape and killed 57 people. From this devastation emerged an incredible ...

Forest Road 99 starts about 18 miles from Mount St. Helens, approaching from the northeast. If the volcano no longer commands the southwest Washington skyline like it once did, having shed 1,314 feet ...

On May 18, 1980- The most powerful volcanic eruption in U.S. history occurred. On May 18, 1980- The most powerful volcanic eruption in U.S. history occurred. Located in Washington State, Mount St.

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 ...

PORTLAND -- New aerial photos of the Mount St. Helens blast taken 34 years ago have just been released. Photographer Richard Bowen captured these amazing images of of the Northwest's most destructive ...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens. If you weren’t around in 1980, here is what happened: For generations, the picturesque, 9,677-foot peak was a ...

A new study explains why even gas-rich, supposedly explosive volcanoes sometimes erupt quietly instead of blowing apart.

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around ...

The Tour de Blast will be shortened for the most advanced riders for the second consecutive year due to a May 2023 landslide which closed the road to Johnston Ridge Observatory through this summer.

Some people near Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, survived the initial eruption, but faced epic struggles to escape what's been called The Death Zone. One of the survivors was a filmmaker who found ...