The volcano was erupting and steam lava slowly between 2004 and 2008. No major stuff though, but technically, still an eruption.
The big eruption (pyroclastic flow, mud flows, mass destruction etc) was in 1980.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_St._Helens
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Mt. St. Helens is a mountain in Southern Washington state, in the Cascade Mountain Chain. It's most recent major eruption was on May 18, 1980
On May 18th 1980.
18th of May 1980
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The most devastating eruption was on May 18th 1890.
Mt St Helens first erupted on May 18, 1980
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The Mount Helen's 1980 eruption was a major volcanic eruption.
57 People died in the eruption.
About 2 cubic km of material was erupted. About the size of the Mt St Helens eruption in 1980.
The deadly May 18, 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens took the lives of 57 people and leveled hundreds of square miles of forests.