Mount St. Helens Is Rebuilding | FameFacts Daily #volcano #pacificnorthwest #shorts

Added: 2026-05-24

[00:00:00]The mountain is rising again.

[00:00:02]After the 1980 eruption, Mount St. Helens lost over 1,300 ft from its peak in a single catastrophic collapse.

[00:00:10]The eruption killed 57 people and flattened 230 square miles of forest in minutes. But deep underground, magma kept slowly pushing upward.

[00:00:20]Between 2004 and 2008, a new lava dome grew inside the crater, rising nearly 1,500 ft as thick rock squeezed upward through the vent.

[00:00:30]USGS monitoring shows the volcano remains thermally active with ongoing seismic activity and ground deformation recorded beneath the crater floor.

[00:00:38]Mount St. Helens [music] sits 50 miles from Portland and 100 miles from Seattle cities with a combined population of over 3 million people.

[00:00:46]The volcano that reshaped the Pacific Northwest in 1980 is not finished. It is rebuilding.