According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the earthquake happened around 7:52 a.m. north of Mount St. Helens, just west of Spirit Lake. USGS equipment recorded the earthquake at a depth ...

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 ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

This week's contribution is from Michael Poland, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey and Scientist-in-Charge of the Yellowstone Volcano ... The only webcams in Yellowstone National Park at ...

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

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the aftermath of the massive eruption ... by human activities may require additional interventions to restore their soil and nutrients. According to the ...

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. – Researchers studying the ... According to the United States Geological Survey, the stratovolcano will likely erupt again, but not anytime soon. The mountain is ...

Just two years earlier, a cataclysm erased life in the landscape. The explosive eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 blew out the mountain's northern flank and destroyed some 135 square miles of ...

JAKARTA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Mount Lewotobi, located in Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara province, erupted again on Monday, forcing more than 12,000 residents to evacuate, according to the Volcanology ...

The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square miles (57,000 square kilometers), according to the USGS. This blistering ...

ejecting five times more material than the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. The USGS plans to install seismometers and GPS units to monitor earthquakes and ground deformation. These instruments ...