Volcanic Eruption

The Laacher See is a caldera in the Rhine Valley of Germany. And a new video of the crater filled with water shows the lake is bubbling....

The eruption of a volcano in Ecuador's Amazon region left several cities covered in ash on Tuesday. The strong eruption fueled concerns of a potential...

While the Yellowstone is currently being hit by swarms of earthquakes... A new study explains that the Yellowstone hotspot is waning... Throughout Earth’s long history, volcanic...

In December 2019, the Ovation of the Seas left Sydney bound for a 12-day trans-Tasman cruise to New Zealand. But things quickly turned nightmarish... The luxury...

Did you know there is a supervolcano in Ecuador? And scientists are frequently asked if the Chalupas volcano, located southeast of Cotopaxi, will erupt in...

These past few days have seen a violent worldwide volcanic uptick... Sending us all further signs that the next Grand Solar Minimum is dawning. The Japanese weather satellite HIMAWARI-8 recorded...

Supervolcanoes have the power to trigger widespread climate change and global starvation. Here a few steps you can take to prepare. Although they might occur...

The Halema‘uma‘u crater on Kilauea, located in Hawaii, has been relatively quiet over the last year after a frenzy of activity in 2018, which all...

May 18, 2020 marks the 40th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption, which reverberated throughout the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The next...

The highest volcano of Eurasia, the Klyuchevskoy volcano, is currently erupting. And during its eruptive phase that has started on April 10, the highest mountain on the Kamchatka...

Volcanoes of the World database update. There were 45 ongoing eruptions as of 17 April 2020, with eruptive activity from 52 volcanoes at some point...

A new study suggests the Kilauea volcanic eruption in 2018 was initiated by extreme rainfall. Are these guys really geologists? The May 2018 rift intrusion and...

Yellowstone supervolcano eruption rumors are back. But it's just a distraction... Cascadia is the real Big One! As if a global pandemic wasn’t enough, some notable geologic events...

Another strong eruption occurred at Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano on April 13, 2020. This new explosion took place only three days after a powerful magmatic...

Washington’s hidden Glacier Peak volcano is among the most dangerous in the U.S. But the volcano in Snohomish County remains the least-monitored and the least-studied...

The Ring of Fire is heating up again. The Popocatepetl and Merapi volcanoes erupted again on March 28, 2020. Here are the videos: Merapi volcanic eruption on...

Indonesia's most active volcano Mount Merapi erupted Friday, shooting a column of ash some 5,000 meters (16,000 feet) into the air in its second...

Check out these up close photo's of the unexploded bombs that's been sitting imbedded in the lava up on Mauna Loa. These bombs were dropped...

Similar to the current epidemic crisis, a new scientific paper suggests the world is not prepared to face the next major volcanic eruption. Scientists insist...

Poor Seattle can't catch a break. It is prone prone to giant earthquakes and even more terrible, the entire Greater Seattle is at the...

Back in January 2020, Taal volcano erupted in the Philippines, burying homes, streets, animals and people into huge quantity of ash. Officials have now reduced...

The La Garita caldera in Colorado's San Juan Mountains is an astonishing 22 miles wide and 62 miles long. The giant scar was...

Scientists argue that the current big wobble experienced across the world is destabilizing volcanoes. And show that the Mount Meager, the last volcano to have...

Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupted powerfully on March 2, 2020, 22:22 UTC, sending a plume of ash and gas 10.7 km (35 000 feet) above...

The Fuego volcano erupted violently on February 26, 2020, 03:41 local time, generating 5 to 12 strombolian explosions per hour. The resulting plume of ash...

Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano violently erupted on February 25, 2020. Ash and debris were ejected into the air. WOW! The strong explosion occurred on Tuesday, 00:16...

The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is showing early signs of impending catastrophic collapse. Scientists discovered substantial internal damage from ongoing magma activity analysing satellite images. One...

Volcanic eruptions never stop around the Ring of Fire. Yesterday, February 13, 2020, the Merapi volcano in Indonesia and the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in...

For 30 years, BYU geologists have searched for the volcano that produced thousands of cubic kilometers of pyroclastic flow on the Utah-Nevada border. Piecing together...

The spheres in the diagram below represent the volume of erupted tephra for some of the most widely-known explosive volcanic eruptions. Although most people believe...

The first eruption of Piton de la Fournaise has started on February 10, 2020, following a strong seismic sequence under the volcano. Several fissures have...

Can you make smoke rings? I can't! But when volcanoes erupt, they sometimes create rare smoke rings that even the Marlboro Cowboy would gulp at. Volcanic...

The Michoacán–Guanajuato volcanic field contains 1400 vents, mostly cinder cones, spread over an area of 200 kilometers (120 miles) x 250 kilometers (160 miles) in Mexico....

Mount Shindake on the Japanese island of Kutinoerabu erupted in the early hours of February 3, 2020. The strong volcanic eruption sent a plume of...

In the last 24 hours, the Popocatepetl volcano exploded twice. Those 2 eruptions were accompanied by 78 exhalations, 563 minutes of tremors and a M1.6...

Something preoccupating is happening in the south-west Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. Unusual and sudden land uplift accompanied by a seismic swarm are being recorded by...

Six new mud volcanoes emerged from underground along Trinidad's southwestern coast. The new cones all appeared along the trace of the August 21st 2018...

This exclusive drone video captured by ABS-CBN News cameraman Val Cuenca shows the Taal Volcano spewing steam on Friday at around 9:00 am. The aerial...

The La Cumbre volcano, located on Fernandina Island, west of the archipelago, started erupting on January 12, 2020, around 6:15 p.m. The first images show...