Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to 111 active volcanoes, about 10 percent of the global total.

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan Meteorological Agency office in Tokyo, nearly 600 kilometers north.

That happened two years ago with the world's largest active volcano. About two months before Mauna Loa spewed rivers of ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 52 jolted Volcano Islands Japan region at 195354 GMT on Thursday the US Geological Survey said The epicenter ...

The Ring of Fire is a string of Pacific volcanoes. Eruptions are a constant threat for Indonesia and other nations ...

The authorities warned of more volcanic activity at Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki, which has erupted dozens of times in the past ...

The U.S. Geological Survey considers it a “high threat” volcano, but that’s a step below its “very high threat” neighbors, including all of those above. Earthquakes are normally detected ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount ... the fault line on April 5th – the day a magnitude 4.8 earthquake rocked New York City. That once in a hundred year ...

Rainier. The agency added that other earthquakes of a smaller magnitude also occurred, but seismologists have been unable to locate them. But both the Cascade Volcano Observatory and the Pacific ...

The United States Geological Survey says it has detected dozens of earthquakes around Kamaʻehuakanaloa, with at least two measuring greater than a magnitude 4.0. The underwater volcano is located ...

HONOLULU – An undersea volcano off the southeastern coast of the Big Island of Hawaii has been rocked by a swarm of more than 70 earthquakes since the weekend, according to the U.s. Geological ...