10 Amazing Facts About Mount St. Helens

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Mount St. Helens is one of the Pacific Northwest’s many volcanic peaks. Part of what is known as the Pacific Rim or the Pacific Ring of Fire, Mount St. Helens is famous because of its recent and continuing activity. Mount St. Helens is part of the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington, about midway between Seattle and Portland.

It remains the United States’ most powerful, and the world’s fifth most destructive, volcanic event in recent history.

It was 36 years ago that Mount St. Helens erupted.

The blast took more than 1,300 feet off the top and rained volcanic ash for miles around. Eastern Washington was covered in volcanic ash, and the cloud drifted east across the United States in 3 days and encircled Earth in 15 days.

Here are 10 Amazing Facts About Mount St. Helens.

1. 3,600 years ago, Native Americans abandoned hunting grounds devastated by an enormous eruption four times larger than the May 18, 1980 eruption.

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2. Most of Mount St. Helens is younger than 3,000 years old (younger than the pyramids of Egypt).