Much to volcanologists' dismay, Hollywood's enthusiasm for special effects often gets in the way of scientific accuracy when ...

Masaya Volcano. (Leon Petrosyan/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0) A major volcano in Nicaragua has not one but two active magma chambers, scientists reveal in a new study, shedding important light on ...

Evacuation orders are in effect in Murrieta as firefighters battle a brush fire. The Volcano Fire was reported just before 3 p.m. Tuesday and has swelled to 144 acres near the Santa Rosa Plateau ...

Two weeks ago, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology recorded three distinct, short-lived explosions in less than five minutes at Taal Volcano. The eruption sent a column of ash and ...

Stunning footage captures the powerful July 21 blast sending plumes of ash skywards and waves racing across the volcano's ...

The fire, which crews dubbed the Volcano Fire, was reported at around 2:50 p.m. near Via Volcano and Tenaja Road in the La Cresta area, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.

In a recent study, researchers dated a historic lahar called the Electron Mudflow to the summer of 1507, establishing a way ...

Scientists predict from geochemical data that Iceland is entering a new volcanic era that will last for decades, possibly centuries. Under an hour's drive from the country's capital city, the ongoing ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory relies heavily on Global Positioning System data to monitor volcanic activity in Hawaii ...

“Noctis Mons” is the seventh-largest volcano on Mars, the biggest being this one pictured—Olympus Mons (artist's impression). Scientists have discovered a massive, deeply eroded giant shield volcano ...

LUCENA CITY — Taal Volcano in Batangas province showed increased signs of volcanic unrest after registering a rise in seismic ...