Mount Etna’s ancient eruptions followed radically different paths, with some magma lingering near the surface for weeks while ...

Gas emissions, earthquakes and ground deformations at Mount Spurr, an Alaskan volcano roughly 80 miles northwest of Anchorage ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions can be as destructive as they are difficult to predict, launching pyroclasts—the fragments of ...

Microscopic clues in volcanic ash reveal how magma breaks apart, heals, and sticks back together during explosive eruptions.

MANILA--About 87,000 people were being evacuated in a central Philippine region Tuesday a day after a volcano briefly erupted ...

An explosive eruption at Semeru Volcano sent a fast-moving pyroclastic flow racing down its slopes. The dense cloud of hot gas, ash and volcanic debris quickly spread across the mountainside. The ...

After a cluster of volcanic activity in Indonesia and the explosive eruption of Mount Anak Krakatau in the Sunda Strait, old videos resurfaced in posts falsely claiming they showed the recent ...

On September 16, 2026, the government's Volcanic Research Committee released an "evaluation of the current status of Mount ...

Guatemala has declared a nationwide orange alert after Fuego Volcano entered a more explosive phase, prompting evacuations, school closures and road shutdowns as lava and ash threaten nearby ...

From Hunga Tonga to Volcán de Fuego, explore the largest and deadliest volcanic eruptions of the 21st century, their ...

In 2024 , D. Sarah Stamps' team detected and tracked a short-lived bulge in the land around a volcano in Tanzania. In a paper published Sep. 18 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the summer of 1991, Pinatubo, a volcano in the Philippines, self-destructed. The eruption started on June 12, and three days later it ...