About two months before Mauna Loa spewed rivers of glowing orange molten lava, geologists detected small earthquakes nearby ...

Scientists can’t know precisely when a volcano is about to erupt, but they can sometimes pick up telltale warning signs.

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

The End Triassic Extinction, which occurred about 201.6 million years ago, stamped out three-quarters of all life on Earth, and has long been thought to be linked to the volcanic eruption of the ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about.

Far less known is there was a time, nearly 200 million years before dinosaurs first roamed the Earth, when a volcanic eruption reshaped the landscape. “You don’t typically think of New Jersey ...

Volcanologist Michelle Parks of the Icelandic Meteorological Office is one of a team of scientists trying to determine whether the retreat of glaciers could boost volcanic activity in Iceland.

After this time, there was a nearly two-year hiatus in eruptions at Kilauea volcano until a new eruption started at the summit in late 1967, lasting 251 days. After that, activity once again shifted ...

We could expect even more eruptions from this sunspot region in the coming days as it rotates to face Earth. The sun has been rather quiet of late but has since roared back to life with a major X ...

As well as mountains, eight dormant underwater volcanoes also lie deep beneath the surface. They had peaks of around 5,000 feet. Mr Yule added: "Four of them are new discoveries, and we filled in ...

Sponsor Message “We have known for a long time that earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions, but understanding when and why remain open questions,” says Michael Manga of the University of ...