Alaska's Mount Spurr has experienced 66 earthquakes in the last week, signaling 'an elevated level of unrest.' The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) issued an update Friday, saying that the 11,000-foot ...
John Pallister, retired chief of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, looks over an example of a field installation used for monitoring a volcano at the USGS office in Vancouver in 2016. (Amanda ...
Imagine Mother Nature writing her own disaster movie. Indonesia’s recent volcanic eruption was like that, with signs everyone missed. It was like a Shakespearean tragedy, with the earth as the main ...
The November 1985 eruption of Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano and the resulting Armero disaster marked a turning point in natural hazard and risk research, assessment and mitigation. Here, we ...
Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, ...
When you think of a typical off-road adventure, your mind probably wanders to muddy trails or sandy dunes, but some engineers are aiming much higher—literally. A team of scientists and specialized ...