MOUNT St. HELENS is RECHARGING ! Scientists warn Volcano will erupt again within our lifetime !

This is the side of Mount St. Helens

blowing out 45 years ago. And this is

where we think the next eruption will

happen, which will be in our lifetime.

By the way,

>> what we're seeing at Mount St. Helens

right now is we have these earthquake

swarms, we have rising gas emissions,

and the crater is growing from within.

So, what's happening in this video, but

it's not going to play out the way you

might think. Here's what we know and why

we're so confident it will happen. So,

first of all, the when Mount St. Helens

is an active, explosive, regularly

scheduled volcano. It's erupted more

than any other in the continental US

over the past few centuries. And

volcanoes like this tend to blow about

once every 30 to 100 years. Something's

recharging beneath Mount St. Helens

right now on the west coast of the US at

the Pacific Ring of Fire. So, what's

going on there? I mean, we all remember

Mount St. Alens and the catastrophic

eruption in the 1980s. So scientists

tell us they're watching it closely

right now because deep below the crater

of Mount St. Helens that blew its top

off in the 1980s, the volcano is

absolutely not quiet. It's building up

pressure again and it can be seen. And

again, as I said, the evidence is

already there. Over the past month and

over the past years, Mount St. Helens

has been producing repeated earthquake

swarms. I've reported about this. Like

not super large earthquakes, but dozens

sometimes hundreds of earthquakes, small

ones, but for a volcano that means

something, right? Most of these

earthquakes, they were so weak um you

could never feel them, but that doesn't

mean that something isn't happening at

Mount St. Helens. So that's exactly ex I

have to say what makes these earthquakes

so dangerous because this type of

activity is not caused by shifting

tectonic plates. I mean Mount St. Helens

is along the Cascadia subduction zone

along subduction zones. We do have all

these volcanoes but if it shakes right

underneath the volcano it's not the

subduction zone. So and here is where it

gets real. So listen carefully. Before

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I would like to see you again. So, let's

go back to the 2000s. If you think in

the 1980s that was the last time we

heard of Mount St. Helens, you're

absolutely wrong. Between February and

June 2024 alone, we had 350 earthquakes

that were recorded. And at one point

activity peaked at 38 earthquakes in a

single week. And we did have earthquake

swarms in 2025.

So almost all of them tiny but happening

at depth of roughly

3 to 5 miles 5 to 7 kilometers beneath

the crater of Mount St. Helens. That is

right where the magma system exists.

So is magma causing this? Right? That's

the big question. What is causing this?

Because earthquakes like this, they

don't just happen randomly. They usually

are triggered because there's pressure

changes underground at the volcano. We

have fluids that are moving through

cracks. We have gas building up. And in

some cases, magma is slowly shifting

through the whole system, the plumbing

system of the volcano, how we call it.

>> Volcanoes like this tend to blow about

once every 30 to 100 years. Yep, we're

getting into that window. But here's the

thing. These eruptions don't come out of

nowhere. Scientists will see it coming.

>> Kind of highlighted that these things

don't necessarily occur out of the blue

because there had been this swarm of

earthquakes um around the volcano. That

indicated that uh molten magma was

moving up the throat of the volcano. And

the other thing that was uh kind of

ominous was the volcano was swelling. I

think you know at that point they issued

an evacuation.

>> That was 1980 but Mount St. Helens is

still very much alive. Just last June

there was another spike in earthquake

activity. Magma started moving again. It

didn't reach the surface but scientists

call this a recharging event. A sign

that the system is priming itself. So

yes, it will erupt again. And that that

isn't new guys. This has been happening

for years. So, in fact, scientists have

now recorded, listen to this, over

31,000 earthquakes beneath Mount St.

Helens since 2008.

31,000.

Let that sink in. And I want to make

clear that is not background noise. That

is a volcanic system that is constantly

adjusting to something that is happening

below. But in order to understand what

this really means and why this matters,

we need to know something that most

people completely miss. And that's

important. My dog thinks that too if you

hear him growling. So Eddie, please.

Mount St. Helens didn't just erupt in

1980. Yes, that eruption was

catastrophic. Absolutely bad. 57 people

were lost. It flattened forests for

miles. We see these images last seconds

before it happened sent ash across the

whole United States. But s then after

that something unexpected happened.

You'll be surprised about the year.

Maybe in 2004

the volcano came back to life again. Not

with a massive explosion. I mean it has

already blown its top off. Also not with

towering ash clouds but with something

much quieter. and in some ways more

dangerous. I have to say more dangerous.

For four straight years, from 2004 to

2008, Mount San Halen slowly pushed

magma upwards through the system. Didn't

explode. It extruded lava. Did you know

that it did? Like thick solid rock,

forcing its way out inside the crater,

building a massive lava dome. So, we

haven't seen dramatic headlines. We

haven't seen global panic. It's just a

volcano rebuilding itself from the

inside. Correct or not? That's the

question. So, that phase was ending in

2008. And when it ended, it didn't mean

the system was done. That's why we're

talking about it today. It meant

something else had started.

That's what we have to recognize here.

This is a longterm recharge phase that

has started deep below the surface. So

magma is generated around a depth of

roughly 20 miles 25 kilometers. From

there it slowly feeds into a reservoir

that is much closer to the surface

roughly I would say 4 to 10 kilometers

down. That's roughly 2.7 to seven miles.

And when that system then begins to

pressurize the rock above it starts to

respond because it's like if pressure is

building up underneath the rocks above

it they they feel the pressure they

start to get brittle and they crack and

that creates the earthquakes, right?

It's shifting as well and that produces

what we're seeing right now. persistent

earthquake swarms, long-term internal

movement, and a volcano that is anything

but inactive. We have to say that. Now,

here's the part where most people get it

wrong. This does not mean an eruption is

about to happen tomorrow, right now. And

that's really important because Mount

St. Helens has gone through similar

phases before in the late 1980s and

again in the 1990s. And those did not

immediately lead to eruptions. But I

also want to make clear with volcanoes,

not each eruption is preparing and

happening in the same way. There's room

for a lot of surprises. So we can say

because it didn't do that last time, it

won't do this this time. So right now

we're dealing with something slower,

something quieter, and in some ways more

concerning. How can that be? Because

what we're dealing with right now, this

is how volcanic systems rebuild, not

with constant eruptions, but with long

periods of silence while pressure is

slowly increasing underground. And right

now there are no strong surface