Steven Lundblad, a geology professor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, explained why the lava fountains have been going ...

This spectrogram shows four hours of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory data streams across six seismic stations at Kilauea’s ...

Kīlauea has been erupting episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Its USGS Volcano Alert level is WATCH.

When you picture a volcano, what do you see? I personally imagine a mountain sticking up into the sky. At the top of that ...

More than 1.1 billion years ago, an immense geological fault called the Midcontinent Rift began to form beneath what is now ...

The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field has some of the largest rhyolite lava flows on Earth. Have you ever wondered what these flows look like in their interior, or how the ...

Together with her son and colleague Arnar Skarphéðinsson, she has identified three potential techniques: drill straight into magma pockets and extract the lava; channel molten lava into pre-dug ...

This supply is the essential driver of volcanism and volcanic hazards at the surface, from explosive eruptions and towering ash plumes to lava ... example, revealing the locations of upper crustal ...

They also found similarities in age. These findings bolster theories that during the moon's early years, it was covered by an ocean of magma. Chang'e-6 basaltic fragment. Credit: Beijing SHRIMP ...

“In the past, the distinct chemical compositions of lavas from Kīlauea and Mauna Loa were thought to require completely separate magma ... in their lava chemistry. “For example, during ...