This Cold War outpost concealed more than submarines—it hosted a devastating eruption that cooled the planet nearly 200 years ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano put on a dramatic display Sunday night, shooting lava fountains over 1,000 feet into the air. The ...

Japan's Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima erupted on Thursday, sending a towering column of ash nearly two miles into the sky. Spectacular timelapse footage captured the powerful moment. Local ...

A survivor of New Zealand’s White Island volcano eruption has removed her face compression ... her father and sister when they began to see black smoke billowing from the top of the crater.

black and white layers of past eruption deposits. Photo: Oleg Dirksen The 1831 eruption was so powerful that it formed the caldera (the hollow basin) that dominates the volcano today. The cooling ...

In the U.S. and its territories, there are 161 potentially active volcanoes. The Mauna Loa volcano erupted on Sunday, spewing ash and lava on Hawaii's Big Island, making it the first eruption from ...

Survivors of one of New Zealand’s worst natural disasters have described the searing pain of being lashed by burning sand, ash and rocks during a volcanic eruption on Whakaari or White Island in ...

A survivor of the Whakaari White ... the volcano, Mr Urey again said: "No, absolutely not." "I had no idea what a level 2 meant. In my mind absolute worst case I was assuming an eruption ...

The eruption at Zavaritskii volcano created a nearly two-mile-wide caldera with layers of red, black and white from previous eruptive deposits. Oleg Dirksen In the summer of 1831, an enormous ...

An aerial view of White Island on March 26, 2016 (left) and steam rising from the Whakaari volcano in New Zealand on December 11, 2019, following the December 9 volcanic eruption (right).