For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

A volcano that has been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years could be gearing up for a massive explosion, according to ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...

Located on the island of Sicily, in Italy, Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Documentation of its many ...

Mount Kilauea in Hawaii began an active eruption on Oct. 17. Kilauea hit record-breaking lava flows at 1,500 feet, and the plume of gas above the fountain rose to over 16,000 feet. The light show ...

THREE earthquakes rocked Perthshire within 17 minutes on Monday – with people 50 MILES away feeling the earth move. A 3.3 ...

How to predict when Ruapehu might next erupt is an important, but difficult, question. A group of researchers thought: why ...

Singer-songwriter Tami Neilson started a new life in New Zealand 20 years ago, and today, as she releases a new album, shares ...

Now in the Whakatane area, Dr. Craig Miller, Senior Volcano Geophysicist at the Earth Sciences NZ explains that the region is a great location to show case a range of natural phenomena and how they’ve ...

The Cranky Volcano is a charming if limited point-and-click adventure that feels tailor-made for children around seven and up ...

American Samoa is a United States territory which comprises the easternmost islands of a volcanic island chain formed by the Samoan hotspot in the South Pacific Ocean. Its small islands are the tops ...

The July 30 8.8 magnitude earthquake near the Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered a series of volcanic activity in Russia. Officials report the rare event of six eruptions since the earthquake. The Ring ...