These fast-moving mudflows can devastate towns in a matter of minutes.

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) recently honored individuals, institutions and scientific ...

Volcanic eruptions are one of the greatest single short-term threats to air travel, but a groundbreaking solution to managing their impact has finally been unveiled. In 2010, the eruption of the ...

For a third straight day, residents of Kagoshima City are sweeping gray-white volcanic ash from rooftops, gutters, and car windshields after Sakurajima, the stratovolcano that looms just four ...

Around 74,000 years ago, Earth experienced one of the most devastating volcanic events in its recent history. The Toba supereruption, centered in what is now Indonesia, blasted 672 cubic miles of ...

While Haleakala hasn't erupted for hundreds of years, that doesn't mean it won't.

The 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption remains the deadliest in U.S. history, fundamentally changing how scientists monitor volcanic activity.

How big can volcanic eruptions get on Jupiter’s moon, Io? This is what a recent study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets hopes to address as an international team of scientists ...

“It was like a shotgun blast directly into the sky,” said one marine geologist. A New Zealand-led team of marine geologists investigating an underwater volcano that erupted on Jan. 15 in the Tongan ...

(Reuters) - The world's largest active geyser has erupted three times in the past six weeks at Yellowstone National Park, including once this week, in a pattern that is unusual but not at all ...