So. It’s December 31, and that means one thing: that the world – and specifically, Axial Seamount, the volcano lying on the ...

Kīlauea has been erupting episodically since Dec. 23, 2024, primarily from two vents (north and south) in Halema‘uma‘u.

For much of 2025, an underwater volcano off the Oregon coast was treated as a geological ticking clock, with forecasts suggesting it could erupt at almost any moment. Instead, the year is ending ...

1959 Kīlauea Iki eruption: It happened in the crater just north of the volcano’s caldera, lasting only about a month with 17 ...

Data from Axial, the most-monitored underwater volcano, are helping geophysicists hone eruption predictions. For Axial, 2026 ...

A rare underwater eruption at Hunga Tonga sent water vapor into Earth’s atmosphere, cooling the stratosphere and reshaping ...

If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing. Such a collapse ...

One notable incident came on May 22, 1919, when a barrage of eruptive activity caused a 1,000-kilogram (2,205-pound) block of ...

Episode 39 of the ongoing eruption at Kīlauea is expected to begin Dec. 24-25, 2025. PC: USGS (12.23.25) The forecast window ...

Whenever Mt. Hood erupts, Portland will be glad to have David George. As a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician, George models landslides and lahars at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, ...

Nov. 24 (UPI) --A volcano in Ethiopia erupted Sunday morning for the first time in at least 12,000 years. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the northeastern part of the country spewed ash and smoke, which ...