Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...
Mount St. Helens experienced a cataclysmic eruption on May 18, 1980. What once was referred to as the “Fujiyama of America” had transformed at 8:32 a.m. in Skamania County, Washington. A 5.1 magnitude ...
The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption remains the most destructive volcanic event of the lower 48 states in recorded history.