MOUNT St HELENS

LOCATION

• Skamania County, Washington

HEIGHT

• 8,366'

HISTORY OF ERUPTIONS

• First eruption on May 18, 1980
• Last eruption was July 10, 2008
• Explosively an eruption occurred through 1831 to 1857 then for 123 years it was quiet till 1980

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INTERESTING FACTS

• During the past 4,000 years Mount St. Helens has erupted more frequently than any other volcano in the Cascade Range.
• 3,600 years ago the Native Americans abandoned hunting grounds devastated by an enormous eruption four times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption.
• Went 123 years until it erupted again.