Tephra formed by lava fountains during the ongoing Kīlauea summit eruption has created a new puʻu, or hill, southwest of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater and visible from the public viewing areas around Kīlauea ...

The eruption in Iceland has triggered an intense effort to improve our ability to detect volcanic ash clouds and forecast their movement in the atmosphere. Eruptions are surprisingly common, and more ...

For much of 2025, an underwater volcano off the Oregon coast was treated as a geological ticking clock, with forecasts ...

Iceland is on the verge of a significant volcanic eruption in the coming days, which has led to thousands of residents being evacuated from their homes since this weekend as thousands of small ...

When lava poured out over the floor of Mokuaweoweo, Mauna Loa’s summit caldera, late on the night of November 27, 2022, it was still many hours away from infrastructure. Or most infrastructure. The ...

On the flanks of Washington State Mount Rainier, a spike in seismic rumbling has revived an old, unsettling question for the ...

The incident occurred inside a hazardous closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, showing why visitors are kept well ...

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday said it is closely tracking the fallout of the massive Hayli Gubbi ...

The Meteorological Department said volcanic ash clouds cleared India by 10:30 pm on Tuesday. The eruption subsided by ...

Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption sends ash across Red Sea to India & worldwide. Map, flight disruptions, weather ...

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