Excavations in Pompeii revealed that four people, including a child, tried to seek shelter from the eruption of Mount ...

Stunning, historic front-page coverage from The Oregonian reporters Les Zaitz and Steve Jenning reports the confusion and ...

The volcano is thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface, so it poses no danger to people. But under all that water, a ...

The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption began with a steady series of earthquakes in March. By April it began spewing smoke, ...

Oxford researchers found that changes in shear-wave splitting can predict volcanic eruptions and their severity. The signal shifted noticeably before a major eruption at Ontake Volcano, offering a ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...

A colossal solar filament over twice the distance between Earth and the moon erupted from the Sun's northern hemisphere ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock ...

Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed 45 years ago Sunday when the sleeping giant woke up and eru ...

Parks staff say new exhibits will center the eruption in the ongoing story of the mountain rather than treating it as a ...

Lava fountains and flows erupted primarily from the north vent, and the south vent was largely obscured by the north vent ...

KING 5's Rich Marriott was working for the Northwest Avalanche Center when Mount St. Helens erupted. He was part of the team ...