Mount St. Helens – Ingalls Weather

Cascades, Geology, Mount St. Helens, Pacific Northwest, Volcano, Washington

Elevated earthquake activity at Mount St. Helens but no eruption imminent

10 November 2023 1 Comment

An increase in seismic activity beneath Mount St. Helens that started on July 15, 2023 continued this week, reports the Cascades Volcano Observatory. Seismologists were able to locate nineteen earthquakes this past week a few miles below the volcano’s summit bringing the total for this earthquake swarm to 465. All of these earthquakes have been […]

Cascades, Flood, Geology, Geology 111, History, Mount St. Helens, Mount St. Helens Memories, Pacific Northwest, Research, Tri-Cities, Washington

First hand accounts of Mount St. Helens’ 1980 eruption

30 January 2018 1 Comment

Author’s Note: This part of a weekly series on geology for a class I am taking this semester at BYU-Idaho. This week’s prompt required students to interview somebody who had firsthand experience with a volcano. I interviewed my grandparents, who lived in Kennewick, Wash. when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980. Other posts from this […]