A major volcanic eruption in the southern Philippines in late 1640 AD may have led to the collapse of China's imperial Ming Dynasty years later, according to a new study that upends previous beliefs ...

A machine-learning algorithm originally built to spot impact craters on Mars has been retrained on ocean-floor data, and the ...

USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff are often asked, “Will lava erupted during the ongoing Kilauea summit eruption in ...

Volcanic eruptions result from the ascent of magma from subsurface reservoirs to the Earth’s surface, where variations in pressure and volatile content determine whether eruptions are effusive or ...

Caldera formation arises when large volumes of magma are evacuated from a sub-surface reservoir, leading to gravitational collapse of the overlying rock into the evacuated space. The process begins ...

A major volcanic eruption in the southern Philippines in late 1640 AD may have led to the collapse of China’s imperial Ming Dynasty years later, according to a new study that upends previous beliefs ...

A major volcanic eruption in the southern Philippines in late 1640 AD may have led to the collapse of China’s imperial Ming Dynasty years later, according to a new study that upends previous beliefs ...