/ Mount St. Helens 25th Anniversary

11:40 PM PDT on Wednesday, May 11, 2005

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with a force equivalent to 1,000 atomic bombs. The blast scorched a 14 to 17-mile radius around the volcano and mowed down 86,600 acres of surrounding trees and wildlands. 57 people died. The powerful eruption and its devastation are captured in pictures, along with nature's slow recovery to bring the mountain back to life.

Mount St. Helens erupts	The eruption's aftermath and destruction	Rich Marriott's photos of the aftermath
Ashfall in the Northwest	Survivors of the eruption	Remembering Harry Truman
The mountain's slow recovery	Mount St. Helens Reawakens - Part 1	Mount St. Helens Reawakens - Part 2
Mother Nature flourishes 25 years later