Volcanoes that dominate postcards and disaster movies are often the ones we can see, their peaks etched against the sky. Yet ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

For much of 2025, an underwater volcano off the Oregon coast was treated as a geological ticking clock, with forecasts suggesting it could erupt at almost any moment. Instead, the year is ending ...

Volcano Alert Level: Watch. Kīlauea has erupted episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera located within ...

Since July 2024, activity at Kilauea has been punctuated by two periods of intense unrest, centered on the upper East Rift Zone (ERZ). The periods included hundreds of earthquakes per day and high ...

The Islands of the Four Mountains in Alaska's Aleutian chain are seen in this photograph taken from the International Space Station (ISS). The islands are the upper slopes of volcanoes that rise from ...

Over the past 40,000 years, three major eruptions have burst forth from Italy’s Campi Flegrei volcano. Two of said eruptions carved massive calderas, or craters, in the landscape, and the third, which ...

Lava continues to flow from the active Kilauea volcano on Hawaii island. Since the Sept. 29 beginning of the current eruption, the crater floor has risen 325 feet. The volume of lava spewed from the ...

April 7 (UPI) --Scientists were able to estimate the viscosity of magma inside Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano by studying fault movements before and during the volcano's eruption in 2018. The breakthrough, ...

New research indicates that a volcano near Naples, Italy might be in the early stages of gearing up for an eruption large enough to change the area’s landscape. In the study, researchers found that ...