Volcanic Eruption

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...

This is the amazing moment the crater floor of the Puʻu ʻŌʻō collapses into a gate of hell. Just add a few Corvettes and... Well,...

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...

A Monday breakout on the flank of Puʻu ʻŌʻō sent lava flows south and northeast, and scientists say the flows were still active on...

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...

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...

A SUPER-VOLCANO in California which erupted with devastating results hundreds of thousands of years ago has a vast reservoir of semi-molten magma measuring a...

Dallol is the hottest inhabited area on Earth, and is also one of the most remote places on Earth. Located in a depression, at more...

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...

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...

Some volcanoes 'scream' at ever-higher pitches before they erupt. The noise is created by a tremor caused by a swarm of mini earthquakes that precedes...

These images of blue lava are amazingly real! So what's the mechanism behind? What is actually happening at the Kawah Ijen volcano? What going on there?...

We just keep discovering and discovering and I love that. A group of scientists say they've found an underwater volcano bigger than the size of...

The volcanic unrest is increasing around the world. There are currently 26 volcanoes erupting around the world and 13 showing enhanced activity. More than 100...

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...

Mount St Helens could erupt again as scientists closely monitor a lava dome rising at five metres a day. A USGS scientist adds:"What is really...

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...

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...

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...

Is Yellowstone Awakening? A M4.5 earthquake and 5 aftershocks larger than M2.5 hit Yellowstone on June 16, 2017, while NASA is flying the world's largest...

The Ring of Fire is exploding right now with 32 volcanoes erupting, 33 showing unrest or minor activity, and several strong earthquakes. The latest volcanic...

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...

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...

This amazing underground volcanic eruption began on March 16, 2009 just off the coast of Tonga in the South Pacific. Was it a sign for...

When we think of volcanoes, we generally think of beautiful and terrifying cone-shaped mountains spewing ash and hot glowing lava. But not all volcanoes...

The pervasive hazard in Yellowstone is earthquakes. They are the killer events. Although a supervolcano blasting Yellowstone National Park may capture the imagination, the region's...

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

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...

A volcano in northeast China could be “recharging” for an eruption, with a vast amount of magma believed to be rising up underneath it. The...

May 18, 2021 marks the 41th anniversary of the Mount St. Helens eruption, which reverberated throughout the Pacific Northwest and around the world. The next...

Like Volcanoes Aren’t Scary Enough, Now They’re Spawning Twisters! The Indonesian volcano Sinabung was dormant until pretty recently. In January 2014, it switched to high gear, blasting...

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...

This is the mesmerizing movement of the lava lake in Halema'uma'u Crater on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, revealing how the top cooler layer of crust...

Geological oddity: The Rift Valley in East Africa is a place where the world is slowly tearing itself apart. The Great Valley Rift in East...

What is going on right now! As if all volcanoes had decided erupting all of a sudden around the world. It's probably to end...