A supervolcano that once shook the Earth is quietly recharging—and scientists are finally seeing how it happens. Scientists ...

Scientists believe the Akahoya eruption devastated the Jōmon people, who inhabited the area now known as Japan between 14,000 ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...

Understanding what triggers large volcanic eruptions is crucial for hazard assessment, but the exact mechanism driving these ...

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

A paper published in Nature Communications suggests that dissolved gases returning into cooling magma, rather than escaping ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcano eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Global reinsurance broker Howden Re has extended its ongoing collaboration with Mitiga Solutions to enhance Spain’s national ...

Suggested Citation: "5 Strengthening Volcano Science." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing. Washington, ...