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The eruption of Mount St. Helens was one of the most impactful in history. But there are people who have lived alongside the volcano for millennia.
Digicel Dominica announced today that Vincentian national Melecia Abbot has been appointed as the company’s new Operations ...
In this week’s volcanic news update, two significant events have captured global attention. The first is the eruption of a volcano near Mexico City, a powerful natural phenomenon that has been shaking ...
Caribbean nations are bracing themselves for another busy hurricane season after experiencing one of the deadliest last year, ...
The six-hour eruption, which ended at 10:25 p.m. local time, marked the 23rd episode in a series of eruptions that began last December. According to the U.S. Geological Survey's Hawaiian Volcano ...
but what if we could pinpoint an eruption? We may be getting close, and science may also get a better handle on severity. The 45 th anniversary of Mount St. Helens’ cataclysmic blast passed a ...
Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, destroying everything in a 6-mile radius. The eruption triggered a landslide that put downstream communities at risk of flooding and threatened access to ...
OLYMPIA Wash. (KPTV) - Sunday marked 45 years since the eruption of Mount Saint Helens. It was a powerful force of nature, equal to 24 megatons of TNT, that destroyed everything within a six-mile ...
“Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Hood, Crater Lake — those kind of volcanoes have a lot more gas and are more explosive in general. The magma is more viscous,” Chadwick said. “Axial is ...
Chaitén Volcano in southern Chile erupted on May 2, 2008, for the first time in 9,000 years. NASA satellites that monitor changes in vegetation near volcanoes could aid in earlier eruption warnings.
Kennedy assassinated Today in History: June 4, the Tiananmen Square Massacre The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption began with a steady series of earthquakes in March. By April it began spewing smoke ...
Before erupting in 1980, Mount St. Helens was a steep, conical volcano sometimes referred to as the Mount Fuji of America. During the 1980 eruption, the upper 1,300 feet of the summit was removed ...