Mount Semeru, located on the border between Lumajang and Malang in East Java, erupted dozens of times over the past few weeks, triggering ash columns and ashfall on villages around the volcano.

Episode 7 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 10:47 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. The southern vent stopped erupting just after 10:43 a.m. followed shutdown of the north ...

“The eruptions are pretty big,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist at Oregon State University who studies the fire-spouting formation, told KOIN. Located 300 miles off Oregon’s Coast, the Axial ...

Phase 7 of the Kīlauea eruption on Jan. 27, 2025. This photo was taken at the first overlook on the Keanakākoʻi side of the caldera. Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, spewed lava once ...

At approximately 1:30 p.m. local time Monday, the volcano released a "small, sporadic splatter foundation," which then continued to increase in intensity until 6:41 p.m., when the eruptions began.

A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute reconstruction of the eruption that turned people into glass. (photo credit: Sailorr. Via Shutterstock) New research unveiled a detailed, minute-by-minute ...

Axial Seamount lies around 480km off the coast of Oregon and has previously erupted three times, in 1998, 2015 and 2011. Geophysicist William Chadwick, of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania ...

Modern humans have never experienced the wrath of a supervolcano eruption—and if they had, humanity’s survival might not have been guaranteed. These cataclysmic events, which dwarf typical ...

Ludger Sylbaris, a troublemaker imprisoned on the Caribbean island of Martinique, not only survived the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelée but emerged to tell a truly extraordinary story. It All ...

Because of prolonged cold weather, pancake ice has formed on the Upper Potomac River near Great Falls. The circular slabs have been spinning and colliding with one another for days while trapped ...

Earthquakes both large and small had rocked the entire island of Sumatra for a year before Mount Toba started to blast out a few small eruptions of steam and ash that blanketed the surrounding jungle.

The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history, killing up to 16,000 people. Now, researchers have revealed a minute-by-minute account of ...