Deadliest volcanic eruption: The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which killed up to 100,000 people From lava fountains to towering ash clouds, volcanoes produce some of the most dramatic ...

High over the island of Sicily, Mount Etna smolders as Europe’s most active volcano. Underneath its rough slopes, a network ...

AMHERST, N.Y. — Technology being developed at the State University of New York at Buffalo has the potential to identify not just when and where a volcano might erupt, but for the first time, the path ...

The southernmost active volcano on the planet is Antarctica's Mount Erebus. It is also home to Earth's only long-lived lava lakes. "Lahar" is an Indonesian word that refers to a type of volcanic flow: ...

Researchers at Mainz University identified volcanic tremors caused by the movement of magma. What really happens inside a ...

The eruption of May 18, 1980, reduced the summit of Mount St. Helens by 1,300 feet. But that was not the only geologic event that has reduced its profile. During its eruptions from 2004 to 2008, Mount ...

Lava is molten rock from a volcano that reaches the Earth’s surface. Liquid rock below the Earth’s surface is referred to as magma. More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level ...

When the crew aboard the research vessel Sonne set out on a cruise last spring, they were expecting a routine mapping expedition in the South Pacific. But they were in for a big surprise. They ended ...

I love the World Cup. I have no shame in that and even though the United States may never understand "the game" (remember, this is the nation that decided that football was a game to play with your ...

Klyuchevskaya Volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere. A caldera is the circular depression in the center of a volcano's summit that forms ...