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 ...
It was ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines and restitutions to victims of the volcanic eruption, who were tourists from a cruise ship, and their local guides. The company in March filed an ...
It was ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines and restitutions to victims of the volcanic eruption, who were tourists from a cruise ship, and their local guides. Plumes of steam rise above ...
volcanic gases and ash from the mountain and the possibility of minor to moderate-sized explosions. Popocatépetl has been active since 1994 and has gone through episodes of increased activity ...
New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...
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 ...
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 ...