Mt. Fitzherbert

VANCOUVER, Wash. - Scientists say the eruption at Mount St. Helens appears to be slowing after four months of magma pushing up into the volcano and spilling into a lava dome on the crater floor.

In an update today from the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver the U.S. Geological Survey said the activity is slower than when it began in late September.

They released pictures of a digital elevation model that shows the volcano in 1980, the dome changes in 2001, and then the dramatic change in October 2004 when the volcanic unrest began again.