Mount Saint Helens in Washington ... the last eruption ended in 2008,” the USGS’ Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, WA wrote. Although the 2008 eruption was relatively minor and ...

An earthquake struck near Morton, Washington Wednesday morning. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake hit at around 7:52 a.m. north of Mount St. Helens ...

Biologist Bob Lucas of the Washington Department of Fish ... taking up roughly a quarter of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, which Congress set aside in 1982 "to ...

a magnitude-5.1 earthquake accompanied by an avalanche flipped the switch on a volcano in Washington state. With pressure suddenly removed from the magma below, Mount St. Helens spewed lava ...

Helens National Volcanic Monument. Cornices have been a perennial hazard on Mount St. Helens even before the ... youth guide with The Mountaineers, a Washington-based educational nonprofit ...

In the wake of the most disastrous volcanic eruption in the history ... On May 18, 1980, Washington’s Mount St. Helens covered 22,000 square miles with 540 million tons of ash.

Helens National Volcanic Monument Open House ... The U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Geological Survey, Mount St. Helens Institute, and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will provide ...

Two years after Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, a team of researchers helicoptered in a gopher to the ash-covered landscape. Decades later, the activity of that single gopher burrowing for a ...