Hayli Gubbi is a shield volcano located in Ethiopia’s Afar Region, about 800 km from Addis Ababa. It’s the southernmost ...

As these chambers fill up, pressure exerted on the surrounding rock increases. Eventually, some of the magma pushes through ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so large it spewed 24 cubic miles of ash, rock, and gases into the air, produced smoke that could be seen from 300 miles away, and completely altered the planet's climate ...

The "swarm" of tens of thousands of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini earlier this year was triggered by molten ...

Volcanic ash clouds are rare. But when Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in 2010, it caused global travel chaos. UK ...

In a statement, Australia’s Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC) have issued a red aviation warning, with local residents ...

Recently, something has been observed “dancing” above the active eruptive vents inside Halema‘uma‘u: hydrogen flames! Let’s take a look into what causes this and other flame phenomenon on volcanoes.

An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...