Lava shooting as high as 800 feet turned Kilauea’s summit into a roaring furnace earlier this week, a reminder that one of ...

Let’s image the simplest, most boring volcano possible. It consists of a magma balloon fed by a straw. The ground is perfectly flat above the balloon. Magma comes up the straw at a constant ...

Episode 40 of the ongoing summit eruption began at 8:34 a.m. Monday, Jan. 12, and ended about 9.7 hours later at 6:04 p.m.

A series of lava fountains building -a cone perched on the crater rim … sounds like the ongoing eruption in Halema‘uma‘u at ...

Phivolcs raises Mayon Volcano's alert level further as the collapse of the lava dome at the volcano's summit generates ...

Checkpoints are now in place to prevent people from entering the six-kilometer permanent danger zone of the Mayon Volcano in ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

The USGS has released dramatic footage as the Kilauea volcano erupts, forming rare 12 metre dome-shaped lava fountains.

Kīlauea summit region shook for 5 hours Nov. 14 that year as magma made a path to the surface. The eruption began at 8:08 p.m ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active volcanoes Sally Sennert Did you know that there are between 40 and 50 volcanoes ...