Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...

Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...

a mountain about the size of Mount St. Helens in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands. Although volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict accurately, this indicates a high ...

On Oct. 28, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of St. Jude, also known as Thaddeus, one of Jesus’ 12 apostles. He is believed to have written the Letter of Jude, one of the shortest books ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about.

Thousands of logs were washed into Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and have stayed there ... And while the water was toxic with volcanic gasses after the eruption, it is now ...

Far less known is there was a time, nearly 200 million years before dinosaurs first roamed the Earth, when a volcanic eruption reshaped the landscape. “You don’t typically think of New Jersey ...

STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country ... Askja could match that of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state. Although it is much more likely to be ...

The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull ... measure the size of explosive eruptions, Askja is capable of one equivalent to that of Mount St. Helens in the U.S. state of ...

“Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. The recent eruption at Nāpau Crater was the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An Alaskan volcano that hasn’t erupted in more than 30 years is showing some increasing signs of seismic life, though volcanologists still say it doesn’t mean an eruption is ...