Dome growth can go on for weeks, months, years or decades. The possibilities are endless," Scott said. Mount St. Helens blew apart in May 1980, killing 57 people and covering the region with ...

Geologists expect future dome-building eruptions at the volcano. "It looks like Mount St. Helens is getting ready to erupt again and it can happen in the order of years to decades," Moran said.

Mount St. Helens has a growing lava dome, indicating that magma is moving through the volcano’s crater, the U.S. Geological Survey said today. “The volcano remains restless,” Tina Neal, a ...

In the battle between mountains and ice, the cold stuff usually wins. Over time, glaciers can grind down tall peaks like buzz saws. But at Mount St. Helens in Washington, a swelling lump of lava ...

Remembering the deadly Mount St. Helens eruption 45 years later Mount St. Helens erupted 45 years ago, causing the deadliest volcanic disaster in U.S. history. Adel Toay, Drew Mikkelsen, Leah ...

Every ecosystem is complex and unique. In some places, specific plants, animals, fungi, or bacteria will have a dramatic effect on how the other things in the area will live. Most of the time, if one ...

SEATTLE - Magma that has been rising inside Mount St. Helens after weeks of earthquakes and steam eruptions has finally pushed its way to the surface, forming a new lava dome just behind the ...

About 400 earthquakes have rumbled under Mount St. Helens since mid-July, the largest chain of shakes since the volcano finished erupting in 2008, the U.S. Geological Survey reported last week.

Where is Mount St. Helens? Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington. The volcano formed through four eruptive events starting about 275,000 years ago, according to the USGS.

In 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, killing dozens and forever changing how the US monitors earthquakes. The volcano is still active but not erupting.

The Mount St. Helens' eruption in Washington on May 18, 1980 is the worst volcanic eruption in U.S. history, killing 57 people and spewing 520 million tons of ash across the U.S.

Multiple recreation sites and viewpoints near Mount St. Helens are still open to the public following a massive landslide on May 14, 2023.