Volcanic Eruption

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...

The Taal volcano has started erupting on Sunday, January 12, 2020, ejecting a large column of ash and prompting the evacuation of nearby communities. Volcanic...

A weird and mysterious seismic hum was detected around the world last year. According to a new scientific study, the origin of that strange rumbling...

On December 19, 2019, unusual activity was recorded at Arboletes mud volcano in Colombia. Some powerful degassing occurred in the middle of the crater sending...

In August 2019 a large raft of pumice appeared in the territorial waters of Tonga. As in many other cases, this pumice raft was the...

Axial Seamount, situated off Oregon's coast, is one of the most active, and also one of the most studied submarine volcanoes on the planet. This...

Five people have been confirmed killed after a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s Whakaari / White Island. This figure is expected to rise,...

A M4.9 earthquake shook Mauna Kea, the tallest volcano on earth, on Big Island, Hawaii on November 11, 2019. More than 1100 people have already...

An undersea volcanic eruption in the Tongan archipelago has sunk one island and created another one that is three times larger. The new island is...

Here an update on volcanic eruptions taking place around the world. Today, we feature the Manam and Mawson Peak activities. The Manam volcano has erupted violently...

We live on a geologically active planet. This, of course, isn’t a shock to anyone but sometimes seeing just now active it is can...

The Kīlauea summit crater lake continues to grow at the bottom of Halemaʻumaʻu. Definitely, in the past 200 years, we haven’t seen activity like this....

Volcanic eruptions are spewing large plumes of gas and ash in the sky sometimes disturbing aircrafts. A new study shows that when the mostly underwater...

The Metis Shoal Volcano, Ha'apai, in Tonga erupted on October 15, 2019, sending a plume of ash and gas 15,000-17000ft above the summit. As of...

The Poás Volcano in Costa Rica erupted on Monday, October 1, 2019. The volcanic explosion has prompted officials to temporarily close the popular tourist attraction...

Shiveluch volcano, situted in Kamchatka, Russia, had a large eruption on October 1-2, sending a plume of ash to 30,000 ft into the air. The...

Papua New Guinea's volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early Tuesday, October 1, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing...

What was the loudest sound in the world? A volcanic eruption produced the most powerful noise worldwide. The sound of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883...

While residents living near Piparo mud volcano, Trinidad and Tobago, reported hearing a loud explosion at 22:08 local time, on September 21, 2019. Heavy...

Anak Krakatau volcano erupted strongly on September 18, 2019. The unexpected surtseyan eruption at the crater lake of Anak Krakatau surprised observers with its dark...

Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its major 1980 eruption. That volcanic event was the deadliest and most economically destructive in U.S. history. Below...

Mount Karangetan volcano in central Indonesia is erupting since Thursday, spewing large plumes of ash in the sky. More than 50 people living on the...

A thicket of red tape and regulations have made it difficult for volcanologists to build monitoring stations along Mount Hood and other active volcanoes. Mount...