A booming eruption at Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano lasted more than 24 hours in early September, hurling ash and ...

On the eastern shore of Jeju in South Korea, Seongsan Ilchulbong rises as a sea-facing volcanic crater and UNESCO-listed tuff ...

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

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 ...

Explosive volcanic eruptions can be as destructive as they are difficult to predict, launching pyroclasts—the fragments of magma and rock blasted from a volcano—into the air and surrounding areas.

Volcanic behavior is a complex interplay of magma pathways and gas dynamics, which can vary significantly, even within a single volcano. Recent research ...

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals that the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption deepened its caldera from 150 m to 850 m and ...

A new study in Nature Geoscience reveals that the 2022 Hunga volcano eruption deepened its caldera from 150 m to 850 m and ...

At the time of the Maunaiki eruption, the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory was still relatively new, having started ...

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

Kīlauea has drawn huge crowds since December 2024 to witness the episodic lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu Crater at the ...

The outbreak at the center of the nation's largest known eruption of the explosive diarrhea illness cyclosporiasis is over, ...