Mount St. Helens Trivia Questions

Mount St. Helens is in Skamania County, Washington, about 50 miles north of the Oregon border, not in Oregon.

Mount Rainier is the highest volcano in the Cascade Range at 14,411 feet. Mount St. Helens stands at 8,363 feet after its 1980 eruption.

The eruption on May 18, 1980, killed exactly 57 people, not over 200. It remains the deadliest volcanic event in U.S. history.

Mount St. Helens had a period of continuous dome-building eruptions from October 2004 through January 2008, with minor activity afterward.

The most recent eruption cycle of Mount St. Helens lasted from 2004 to 2008, not 1991. The 1991 event was at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines.

A massive lateral blast on May 18, 1980, devastated approximately 230 square miles of forest, toppling trees outward from the volcano.

On May 18, 1980, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake triggered a massive landslide, which then led to the volcanic eruption later that morning.

The volcano was named by explorer George Vancouver in 1792 after Alleyne FitzHerbert, a British diplomat and the Baron St Helens.