VOLCANOES

Eager visitors flock to see spectacular lava fountaining from Kilauea eruption in Hawaii

VOLCANOES
People were flocking to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Wednesday to get a glimpse of fountaining lava. The eruption that began Dec. 23 in a crater at...

Indonesia’s Mount Ibu erupts, spews hot lava and smoke

VOLCANOES
A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted on Saturday, spewing hot lava and releasing a column of smoke and ash four kilometers (3.1 miles) into...

Cumbre Vieja study suggests that magma composition drives volcanic tremor

VOLCANOES
A study based on the sampling and analysis of volcanic ash at Cumbre Vieja volcano in the Canary Islands, located off Africa's northwest coast,...

Magmatic fluids and melts may lie beneath dormant German volcanoes

VOLCANOES
Central Europe is typically not on most people's radar when it comes to assessing volcanic risk. However, as recently as 11,000 years ago, volcanoes...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing columns of lava

VOLCANOES
One of the world's most active volcanoes sprang into life again Monday, spewing columns of lava 80 meters (260 feet) above Hawaii, US vulcanologists...

Old moon, young crust: Violent volcanism may mean the moon is much older than previously thought

ASTRONOMY
After its formation, the moon may have been the scene of such immense volcanic activity that its entire crust melted several times and was...

Massive volcanic eruptions did not cause the extinction of dinosaurs, say climate scientists

PALEONTOLOGY
Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of...

Evacuations underway as Philippine volcano erupts

VOLCANOES
A volcano erupted in the central Philippines on Monday, sending a huge ash column high into the sky as the government ordered the evacuation...

Unveiling a century of stress and deformation: Insights from Kīlauea Volcano’s 1975 earthquake

VOLCANOES
Researchers from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Department of Earth Sciences assessed an unprecedented 120 years of data from Kīlauea Volcano on Hawai'i...

Volcano on Iceland’s Reykjanes Peninsula erupts for the 7th time in a year

VOLCANOES
A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland has erupted for the seventh time since December. The eruption started with little warning at 11:14...

World’s largest active volcano Mauna Loa showed telltale warning signs before erupting in 2022

VOLCANOES
Scientists can't know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale signs. That happened two years ago with...

Faster flowing glaciers could help predict nearby volcanic activity

VOLCANOES
Glaciers that are within three miles of a volcano move nearly 50% quicker than average, a new study has found, which could help create...
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