VANCOUVER, Wash. (KPTV/Gray News) - Mount St. Helens, which notoriously erupted in 1980, has been showing signs of increased seismic activity lately, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It’s ...

Scientists have determined that a surge of molten rock through an underground channel over three months instigated the ...

The "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten ...

A new study explains why even gas-rich, supposedly explosive volcanoes sometimes erupt quietly instead of blowing apart.

A team of scientists has observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate. Situated 60 kilometers beneath the Pacific ...

A Geophysics professor in Iceland, Magnús Tumi Guðmundsson, shared that the solidification of the magma dike at Svartsengi, a geothermal field near Grindavik, by 90% over two weeks has decreased the ...

Ten years ago, Samer Naif made an unexpected discovery in Earth’s mantle: a narrow pocket, proposed to be filled with magma, hidden some 60 kilometers beneath the seafloor of the Cocos Plate. Mantle ...