May 16, 2025 - News

Remembering "surreal" Mount St. Helens eruption 45 years later

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A triptych shows three images: The front page of The Oregonian the day after the Mount St. Helens eruption, a man walking to a car in a field of debris after the eruption and the mountain as it appears today, with wildflowers blooming in the foreground.

Photos: From the May 19, 1980, edition of The Oregonian; the aftermath seen on May 28; the mountain in 2016. Photos: (from left): Newspapers.com; UPI/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images; Prisma Bildagentur/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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