James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

A very common case study for volcanoes is the eruption of Mount St Helens in the USA in 1980. Other case studies include the eruption of Mount Etna in Sicily in 1974 and Heimaey eruption in ...

Then, on May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted sending rock and debris down river valleys from the volcano. Ash flew 15 miles into the sky, and wind swept that across 22,000 square miles.

Mount Saint Helens in Washington, which notoriously and cataclysmically erupted in 1980 and had its ash reach ... have been ...

Some of the most breathtaking photos of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens were taken by a graduate student camped nearby. Even more impressive, he took them while trying to outrun the enormous ...

A teenager when he began scuba diving in the shadow of Mount St. Helens, he remembers the lake as it was before the May 1980 eruption, before the top 1,300 feet of the volcano—more than three ...

Dozens of items that survived the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens are once again on display for the general public. “Mount St. Helens has always been an interest of mine,” said said Joe ...

The U.S. Forest Service is reviewing ways to prevent Spirit Lake from overflowing, including updating or replacing an aging tunnel built to drain the lake after the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption.