Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago Sunday when ...

Mount St. Helens erupted, killing dozens and forever changing how the US monitors earthquakes. The volcano is still active ...

Stunning, historic front-page coverage from The Oregonian reporters Les Zaitz and Steve Jenning reports the confusion and ...

Salem Towne, a pilot from Poulsbo, is finally releasing photos he took 45 years ago - moments after Mt. St. Helens erupted.

The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption began with a steady series of earthquakes in March. By April it began spewing smoke, ...

Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens ... before and after its catastrophic May 18 eruption with an Olympus OM-2 camera and a telephoto lens. Images ...

57 people died in the eruption, but the disaster gave scientists a way to develop monitoring tools, improving their ability ...

Michael Cairns flew a National Guard helicopter on a rescue and recovery mission to Mount St. Helens. His book, "Under the ...

Take a look back at photos from the eruption and its ... near what is now known as Johnston Ridge near Mount St. Helens the day before the eruption. At 8:32am the next morning, Johnston radioed ...

Even if you haven’t been up to the Johnston Ridge Observatory near Mt. St. Helens, where one of the most puzzling photos of the volcano’s May 1980 eruption ... the mountain before it blew.

The 1980 blast remains the deadliest volcanic eruption in ... University of Idaho the day before and was preparing to begin a new chapter of my life. But Mount St. Helens had other plans.

(KOIN) — On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted — killing 57 people ... so thick it turned day into night.” Check out the photos below of the blast, and its aftermath: ...