When hundreds of volcanologists gathered in Geneva last July for the world’s largest volcanology conference, Italy’s Instituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) drew particular attention.
When a town in Hawaii was threatened by lava in 1935, a group of airplanes tried to redirect the flow. Mark Strauss A bomb detonates on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano, near the 8,500-foot-elevation source ...
Pressure waves from the colossal 2022 Tonga eruption rippled through Alaska’s crust, offering scientists a rare look into the state’s deep subsurface. Atmospheric waves from a powerful volcanic erupti ...
Hawai'i's Kīlauea volcano erupted again on Tuesday, prompting National Park Service officials to warn visitors of potential air quality threats. The latest: The Big Island volcano, one of the most ...
An explosive eruption could send an avalanche of hot gas, ash and rock fragments racing downhill at speeds of up to 700 km an hour, burning everything in its path. This Pyroclastic flow can cause ...
The Kanlaon volcano in the Philippines erupted today (Dec. 9) at 3:03 p.m. local time, spouting an eruption column of up to 1.86 miles (3 kilometers) into the sky and triggering the evacuation of ...
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