Taal Volcano in the Philippines Erupts for First Time in 40...
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...
Mystery Of Weird Seismic Hum Heard Around The World Solved
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...
Strong Degassing at Arboletes Mud Volcano in Colombia
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...
Scientists Identify Volcano F as the Source of the August 2019...
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, a Huge Underwater Volcano off Oregon Coast, Was 3D...
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...
White Island Volcanic Eruption Kills at Least 5 in New Zealand
Five people have been confirmed killed after a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s Whakaari / White Island.
This figure is expected to rise,...
M4.9 Earthquake Hits Mauna Kea – Is the Tallest Volcano on...
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...
Underwater Volcanic Eruption in Tonga Sinks One Island and Creates Another...
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...
Red Alert at Manam (PNG) After Eruption and Lava Flow at...
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...
Ten thousand years of volcanic eruptions in awesome animated maps (video)
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...
Geologists in Hawaii are closely watching a growing lake on the...
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....
Some Underwater Volcanoes Create Volcanic Gas Bubbles More Than a Quarter-Mile...
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...
Underwater Volcano Erupts in Tonga – Ash and Gas Plume Reaches...
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...
Intense Eruption of Poas Volcano Prompts Park Closure in Costa Rica
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 Erupts Strongly in Kamchatka – Ash Plume Rises to...
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...
Residents Flee After Ulawun Volcano Newly Erupts in Papua New Guinea
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...
The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 caused shock waves 10,000 times more...
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 Piparo Mud Volcano Explodes and Cracks Roads, Tropical Storm Karen...
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...
New Strong Eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia
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...
Mt St Helens Before and After Picture of Deadly Eruption in...
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 Volcanic Eruption Triggers Evacuations in Indonesia
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...
We Should Better Monitor the U.S. Most Dangerous Volcanoes to Better...
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...
Kilauea Volcanic Eruption Unexpectedly Triggered a Giant Algae Bloom in Pacific...
Volcanic eruptions are typically associated with death and destruction...
But the recent eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island resulted in an unexpected and gigantic plume of...
One Of the Most Violent Eruptions of Stromboli Volcano in Recent...
The Stromboli volcano in Italy erupted violently at around 10:17 UTC on August 28, 2019.
This is one of the most powerful eruptions of the volcano...
Monster Eruption of Shiveluch Volcano Blasts Ash 70,000 Feet in the...
Recently, the Kamchatka Peninsula is experiencing an upstick is volcanic activity with the Karymski and Shiveluch volcanoes exploding regularly.
Well, this enhanced activity climaxed over...
Kilauea Video Update: The Small Pond Is Slowly Filling the Halemaumau...
While crews are restoring Highway 132 that was completely devastated by last Kilauea eruption...
There is small pond of green water growing at the bottom...
Popocatepetl Volcano Erupts Again in Mexico
Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano erupted twice on Sunday, blasting a column of ash, smoke and gas more than 1.5km into the sky.
A level-two yellow alert...
What Would Happen If the Yellowstone Supervolcano Actually Erupted?
If the supervolcano underneath Yellowstone National Park ever had another massive eruption, it could spew ash for thousands of miles across the United States, damaging...
Underwater Volcano Erupts in Tonga and Covers Ocean in Ash and...
An unexpected underwater eruption occurred near Fonualei island in the Tonga archipelago on August 7, 2019.
The eruption was so large that volcanic rocks and ash completely...
More Than 100 Extinct Volcanoes Discovered in Australia
A field of about 100 volcanoes in Australia have been discovered.
This formerly lava-spewing Jurassic landscape was buried under hundreds of feet of rock in...
Dramatic Volcanic Eruption of Popocatepetl Volcano Sends Ash Plumes 20-24,000 ft...
The Popocatepetl volcano has increased its activity with more frequent individual explosions.
During during the last 24 hours, 160 exhalations (passive emissions of steam, gas...
The internet has erupted with fears about the magma under Yellowstone...
The series of powerful earthquakes that shook Southern California in July prompted understandable concern about whether the region is prepared for a period of...
Kilauea Water Update: 3 Steaming Ponds Grow at the Bottom of...
Observations conducted Sunday at the summit of Kīlauea Volcano revealed the presence of a third “pond” of water in Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
Halema‘uma‘u has not had...
Unprecedented: Mysterious Water Found at the Bottom of Kilauea Volcano Crater...
Yesterday USGS Volcanoes revealed that water has appeared at the bottom of Halema‘uma‘u.
But Halema‘uma‘u has never had a pond of water since written observations began, so...
What if one of Alaska’s 52 historically active volcanoes erupted on...
Mount Iliamna, Augustine Volcano, Mount Redoubt and Mount Spurr, Anchorage's closest neighbor volcanoes have an explosive, active history.
But the region around Alaska's biggest city is hardly a...
Piton de la Fournaise volcano erupts for the third time in...
Here we go again!
The Piton de la Fournaise is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Réunion island (a French department) in the Indian Ocean has...
Indonesia issues flight alert after Tangkuban Parahu volcano erupts near Bandung,...
Indonesian authorities issued a flight alert notice after a volcano erupted near the country's third-biggest city of Bandung on Friday (July 26) afternoon.
The first eruption...
Ubinas volcano eruption in Peru: State of emergency and 30,000 people...
A state of emergency has been declared in the area around the volcano after it violently exploded on July 20, 2019, sending ash all...
Violent eruption of Ubinas volcano in Peru ejects ash 40,000 ft...
Hundreds of people living near the Ubinas volcano have been evacuated after the volcanic peak erupted 07:35 UTC (02:35 local time) on July 19,...
Raikoke volcanic eruption: Before and after videos
A massive eruption of the Raikoke volcano, Kurile Islands, Russia took place on June 22, 2019.
This is how the Raikoke island looked like before...