The Mount St. Helens eruption anniversary prompts investigation into the California earthquakes: eruption history, threat ...

Two massive tectonic plates (the Pacific and the Juan de Fuca plates) are constantly shifting, leading to a steady build-up ...

Is there anything more spectacular than a towering lava fountain? Think about what it is: glowing red molten rock being shot ...

One of the Pacific Ocean’s lesser-known volcanoes will blow its vent in the coming months, causing 10,000 earthquakes in one ...

The Yellowstone Plateau Volcanic Field has some of the largest rhyolite lava flows on Earth. Have you ever wondered what ...

Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists ...

Pilots are advised to avoid volcanic eruptions, but in 1935, a squad of U.S. bombers took a more aggressive approach.

Axial Seamount, a mile-wide underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon, is showing signs of an imminent eruption. The volcano ...

Scientists say they used satellites and other technology to plumb the inner workings of a Bolivian volcano that last erupted ...

They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal ...

( NewsNation) — An underwater volcano that is nearly 300 miles off Oregon’s coast is set to erupt very soon. For decades, ...