Parents of Volcano Victim Recall 1980
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Like so many others, Tom and Alice Johnston have been watching recent televison footage of Mount St. Helens spewing steam and volcanic ash. But their reason is personal: Their son is buried there.
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ST. GEORGE, Utah -- When the baby boomers of St. George were children, radioactive ash from nuclear test explosions in Nevada regularly drifted toward the red bluffs of their town and fell like snow. They played in it and wrote their names in it on car windows.
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Last year, children's voices echoed across ground zero. This year, it is the bereaved parents and grandparents of World Trade Center victims who will read aloud the names of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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The DVD of the acclaimed docudrama includes interviews with victims' family members.
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KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka -- A judge's ruling yesterday that a couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami survivor known as "Baby 81" sparked chaos in a hospital pediatric ward after a surging crowd and the would-be parents burst in and pleaded with doctors to release the infant.
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Mount St. Helens, the volcano that blew its top with cataclysmic force in 1980, erupted for the first time in 18 years Friday, belching a huge column of white steam and ash after days of rumblings.
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Masami Kosaka will never forget the date: Jan. 17, 1995, the day a powerful earthquake tore through her hometown of Kobe, killing thousands, toppling homes and setting fires that ravaged her working-class neighborhood.
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Mount St. Helens&#39; daily throes have muscled TV&#39;s disaster watch away from Florida&#39;s hurricanes and gotten the nation wondering if another monster eruption like the killer of 1980 is in store.
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a &quot;supervolcano&quot; that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash fallout 760,000 years ago.
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Sept. 29, 2004 - Mount St. Helens, a volcano that devastated swathes of the Northwest when it erupted 24 years ago, has rumbled back to life, raising fears of a fresh explosion, seismologists said Monday.
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When the raging ocean waters subsided, 7-year-old Karl Nilsson from Sweden thought he had been transported to another city. He was still in the same place, but his parents
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A mother holds her child as she looks at the destruction caused by Sunday&#39;s tidal wave to her home in the coastal town of Kosgada in southern Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004.
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What Greg Ray remembers is seeing a mountain come down on him. What he doesn't understand is why he survived while two of his friends died in a torrent of liquid earth that buried homes in the hamlet of La Conchita.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 14--Do you remember the Mackay earthquake of 1983? Where were you, and what did you experience?   Betty Hare, who is compiling personal stories for inclusion in "Mackay Earthquake Retrospective," wants to hear about your experience.
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A TWO-year-old boy who was miraculously rescued from a crushed car after a major earthquake in Japan has recounted his ordeal and is asking about his mother - who died in the debris.
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A modern timeline of Mount St. Helens shows events leading up to the 1980 eruption, then the days leading up to the much smaller steam eruption Friday.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. Oct. 7, 2004 - Geologist David Johnston wouldn&#39;t have died on Mount St. Helens today. New equipment developed since the 1980 eruption of the volcano has made it possible for volcanologists