Volcano may puff away for weeks, even years
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CASTLE LAKE VIEWPOINT, near Mount St. Helens - With three explosions of steam and ash in less than a week, Mount St. Helens appears to have entered a restless new stage that could last weeks, months or possibly years, scientists said yesterday.
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US scientists fear a surge in activity at the Mount St Helens volcano in Washington state might be a sign it is on the verge of erupting.
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Scientists continue to monitor two volcanoes that the Alaska Volcano Observatory says could send dangerous ash into the air at any time.
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There has been a volcano on this site for 40,000 years &#151; the youngest and most active peak in a 1,000-mile Cascade Range chain that extends from Mount Garibaldi in Canada to Mount Lassen in Northern California.
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Geologists are warning that the Mount St. Helens volcano in the northwestern US state of Washington could erupt in the next few days.
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SEATTLE Scientists say that judging by the way Mount St. Helens is acting up, an eruption may be imminent -- perhaps in the next few days.
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Mount St. Helens could erupt within  days, government scientists said on Wednesday, raising the  alert after movement in the volcano's lava crust was detected  following a week of small earthquakes.
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The volcano-watchers who were hoping for a glimpse of a big eruption at Mount St. Helens may have to go home disappointed. &quot;We no longer think an eruption is imminent in the sense of minutes or hours or an
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Last Friday, 34-year-old Swiss tourist Konrad Hegner decided to visit Mount St. Helens, hoping to witness an eruption before heading to Mount Rainier and continuing on his travels. He has been here every day since &#151; even when clouds obscured the crater &#151; and is not sure when he'll leave.
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Scientists meet  this week to decide if Montserrat's SoufriÃ¨re Hills Volcano still poses a major threat to the island's inhabitants.
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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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However, they warn that predicting a volcano&#39;s eruption isn&#39;t an exact science, and there&#39;s a 30 percent chance &quot;it just might go back to sleep.
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The hot rock continued to ooze through the volcano. The lava caused regular ash plumes and steam seen for a miles around Mount St.
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While earthquakes, steam and magma are getting all the attention on Mount St. Helens these days, the volcano's most unique feature could be the icy epitome of slow motion that has sprouted on its flanks in the last two decades: its glacier.
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Two years after Mount St. Helens began its low-key eruption, a process that has extruded tons of rock into the crater left by the volcano's deadly 1980 blast, scientists say the mountain seems to be slowing down.
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Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano on Thursday hurled fiery rocks and sent a column of ash and steam 1 1/2 miles above its crater. Experts have warned that Tungurahua is poised for a major eruption within a matter of days or weeks.
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A small explosion of rocks, ash and steam could occur within the next few days within the crater of Mount St. Helens, where earthquake activity has been steadily building for nearly a week, scientists said Tuesday.