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 ...
A pocket gopher is seen in its home on a meadow in the Butte Camp area on the southern side of Mount St. Helens in southwest Washington state. Gophers were taken to the northern side, which had been ...
On the morning of May 18, 1980, one of the most powerful natural disasters hit the Pacific Northwest. Mount St. Helens, a snow-capped peak in the Cascade Range of Washington, erupted with a force that ...
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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.
To residents of a certain age, it almost seems like it was yesterday. But Sunday, remarkably, marks the 45th anniversary of a cataclysmic explosion on Mount St. Helens. In a matter of seconds on the ...
Editor's note: This story was originally published in May 2018. Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980 ...