A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born 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 ...

A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025.

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

The Coconucos volcanic chain is a mountain ridge dotted with at least 14 volcano craters, including one that is active and ...

"I just did it and let it be," says Curt Kirkwood about the long-dormant eponymous album of Volcano, his short-lived aughties supergroup. Kirkwood is shown here as a Meat Puppet circa 1986. (Credit: ...

Volcano Alert Level: Watch. Kīlauea has erupted episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, within the summit caldera located within ...

Natural disasters, from wildfires, floods and mudslides in western states to large earthquakes in Japan, have rocked, burned and flooded parts of the world in the first months of 2025. What’s next?

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. On Dec, 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s ...