1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

Federal scientists are pushing back against viral claims that “mega eruptions” could strike within days, even as they quietly ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025.

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

Mount Etna’s northeastern crater has lit up winter skies with a renewed burst of Strombolian activity on December 27,2025.The ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by US Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. On Dec, 23, 2024, a unique eruption began in Kīlauea’s ...

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...

The 1815 eruption produced 60 megatons of sulfur, and as a result, average global temperatures dropped by around 3°C (5.4°F).

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...