Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A volcano in eastern Indonesia erupted again on Saturday, sending a giant ash tower nine kilometres (more than five miles) ...

“But they have learned an important lesson on how to avoid the danger of eruption.” Indonesia, an archipelago of 282 million people, is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity because it sits along ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

The Italian authorities carried out a drill of their plan to save a half-million people from toxic fumes, deadly quakes or a full eruption. Vesuvius isn’t the volcano they’re worried about.

Far less known is there was a time, nearly 200 million years before dinosaurs first roamed the Earth, when a volcanic eruption reshaped the landscape. “You don’t typically think of New Jersey ...

STORY: This is Iceland’s Askja volcano, one of the country’s most ... for “hell” – and it was formed during a massive eruption in 1875. Parks and her colleagues closely monitor the ...

The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park in Iceland’s central highlands, uncorked in an explosive eruption in 1875. Askja’s last eruption, in 1961, was milder ...

This image shows Taal Volcano's minor phreatic eruption on Oct. 20, 2024. (Screenshot from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology’s Facebook page) A minor phreatic or steam-driven ...

Deep-sea volcanic ridges, formed by the collisions of tectonic plates, create underwater hot springs in an otherwise frigid environment. These hydrothermal vents belch warm towers of elements that ...

10/19/2024 October 19, 2024 Inhabitants on the Spanish island of La Palma are still coping with the aftermath of the Tajogaite volcano eruption three years ago.

A phreatic eruption occurred at Taal Volcano in Batangas on Friday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). The phreatic eruption lasted seven minutes and 39 ...