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The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only ...
A stratovolcano in Europe erupted on June 2 and sent tourists running for safety. What is the status of Washington's most ...
Mount Etna produced a spectacularly explosive eruption Monday, sending a ripple of reddish clouds down from the southeast ...
Europe's highest active volcano, triggering a red alert for aviation crews in the region. The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology's Etna Observatory in Catania estimated the volcanic ...
Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. This week’s article is by Mike Cappos, a gas field ...
“Ashfall is going to be a big hazard,” says Matt Haney, the scientist-in-charge at the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory. Though volcanic ash might sound exceptionally peri ...
A massive volcanic eruption occurred at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily on Monday, shooting massive ash plumes ...
All tourists and trekkers on the volcano when it erupted have been evacuated safely, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Observatory. The eruption petered out late ...
Here’s how to see them safely. Lava flows create a map-like pattern on black basalt rocks at Iceland’s Fagradalsfjall volcano, which erupted in March 2021 for the first time in nearly 800 years.