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Mt. St. Helens After Eruption

Photo: Aerial view of a Mt. St. Helens crater after eruption

A wisp of smoke escapes from Mt. St. Helens’ dramatic eggshell-shaped crater after an eruption. Washington State’s volcano is most famous for its catastrophic 1980 eruption that killed 57 people, destroyed homes, bridges, and highways, and triggered an enormous debris avalanche that carved a mile-wide (1.5-kilometer-wide) crater on the mountain.

Photograph by Steven L. Raymer