A recent earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier in Washington state, along with increased volcanic activity in Alaska, Oregon, and Hawaii, has captured the news media's attention and sparked questions ...

Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

Credit: Iceland Coast Guard/Civil Protection in Iceland/Cover Images These images and video show a volcanic fissure in south-west Iceland that has resulted in tourists and residents being evacuated.

Mount Etna’s craters continue to smoulder two days after its largest eruption in four years sent tourists fleeing from a vast column of gas and ash on Monday. Tourists have returned to the slopes of ...

Mount Etna is known for its frequent eruptions, and the latest activity is no exception. According to scientists from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, the volcanic activity has ...

When you think of the United States, images of sprawling cities and vast landscapes might come to mind, but not the hidden and ever-present geological threat: volcanoes. While you might associate ...

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous and now best-monitored volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range. From southern British Columbia ...

JAKARTA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A volcano in Indonesia's East Java province erupted on Saturday, spewing ash and smoke as high as an estimated 5.6 kilometres into the sky, according to data from the ...