MORTON, Wash. - An earthquake struck near Morton, Washington Wednesday morning. According to the United States Geological ...

A minor earthquake was detected near Morton, Washington, on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The ...

Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were magical.

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...

The ever-expanding 500-foot-high lava dome in Mount St. Helens' crater is a towering pile of rubble Tuesday, August 2, 2005, following eight magnitude 3 earthquakes in the previous week. The ...

Is it getting ready to rock? Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, lava incinerated anything living for miles around. As an experiment, scientists dropped gophers onto parts of the scorched mountain for only 24 hours.

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted covering the region in volcanic ash. The north face of the mountain collapsed and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Mount St. Helens has recently been swarming with geological activity, which could mean the giant American volcano is gearing up for its next big eruption.

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake as it was before the May 1980 eruption, before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three ...