A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers ...

For the last year, Alaska's Mount Spurr has been showing signs of a potential eruption on the horizon. If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this ...

“This challenges the old idea that eruptions are fueled by magma stored in the Earth’s crust and suggests a new possibility that magma is stored and matures in the Earth’s mantle, and eruptions are ...

That’s what happened in 2022, when the Hunga underwater volcano near Tonga erupted, sending waves roughly 50 feet tall into the northern coast of Tongatapu. Mr. Köhler and his team estimated ...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock spilled into the sea and unleashed surprising levels of volcanic gas.

“At the moment, there are a couple hundred earthquakes a day, but that’s still a lot less than we saw before the previous eruption,” said William Wilcock, a marine geophysicist at the ...

Led by the University of Delaware’s Andrew Wozniak, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and Policy, a team of scientists recently witnessed a rare seafloor eruption 1,300 miles west of ...

Experts say rising magma, increased gas emissions, and grey vapour suggests an eruption could happen within weeks or months. If it erupts, Mount Spurr could spew ash 50,000 feet into the sky ...

The eruption generated colossal tsunamis, devastated surrounding regions and released such immense energy that the sound of the explosion was heard more than 5,000 kilometers away. It's widely ...

Before the eruption, scientists saw a wide variety of ocean life around the Tica hydrothermal vent. Andrew Wozniak For the first time, scientists have witnessed an active seafloor volcanic ...