Mild Quakes Shake Lava Dome Atop Mt. St. Helens
United Press International
VANCOUVER, Wash. —
A steaming, 830-foot-high lava dome rumbled and shook from mild earthquakes in the mile-wide crater atop Mt. St. Helens on Sunday, the sixth anniversary of the volcano’s cataclysmic eruption, a government geologist said.
The top of the mountain blew up on May 18, 1980, leveling 220 square miles with the force of an atomic bomb. Authorities said 57 people died in the eruption.
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