Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano had been quiet for the past 12,000 years. For all these centuries, it sat dormant with its hollow, crater-shaped mouth etched into the Danakil Depression, one of the ...

A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Russia was hit by a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake on July 30, and hours later, the Klyuchevskaya Sopka in the Kamchatka region erupted. Then, on August 3, another volcano that had been dormant for ...

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

Washington state may not have to worry about hurricanes, but it is volcano country. The United States has 161 active volcanoes – all in the western U.S. – but only 18 are classified as a "very high ...

But it’s not the only volcano that has erupted this month.

How might climate change affect eruptions from Osorno volcano in Chile and vice versa? Source: Ilan Kelman Are climate change and tectonic processes linked? We must examine both directions: volcanic ...