The 2012 Afar region tourist attack Attack was a shooting Killing incident Attack on the night of 17 January 2012 at Erta Ale volcano in the Afar Region of Ethiopia which killed Killing 5 and injured Bodily_harm 3 .

on may 18 , 1980 , a major volcanic eruption Catastrophe occurred Presence at mount st. helens , a volcano located in skamania county , in the u.s. state of washington .

The eruption Catastrophe was preceded Process_start by a two-month series of earthquakes Catastrophe and steam-venting episodes , caused Causation by an injection Motion of magma at shallow depth below the volcano that created Creating a large bulge and a fracture system on the mountain 's north slope .

This allowed the partly molten , high-pressure gas- and steam-rich rock in the volcano to suddenly explode northwards toward Spirit Lake in a hot mix of lava and pulverized Destroying older rock , overtaking Motion the avalanching face .

at the same time , snow , ice and several entire glaciers on the volcano melted Change , forming Creating a series of large lahars ( volcanic mudslides ) that reached Arriving as far as the columbia river , nearly to the southwest .

at the time of the eruption , the summit of the volcano was owned by the burlington northern railroad , but afterward the land passed to the united states forest service .

over a unk period from january 14 to january 28 , of rainfall were recorded Recording at commerson 's crater , a volcano .

the aircraft struck Connect the volcano mount unk at .

The storm Catastrophe also dropped Motion_directional torrential rainfall , peaking at at a volcano in Cilaos .

The threat from the hurricane Catastrophe halted Process_end airplane evacuations Escaping on Montserrat , which was being threatened Warning by the eruption Process_start of the Soufrière Hills volcano .