Satellites detect that Iran's Taftan volcano has risen 3.5 inches, which is an indication of internal pressure and volcanic ...

In a mountainous region near the Iran–Pakistan border, satellite instruments have recorded a series of subtle changes in the ...

The Axial Seamount—a volcano located 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and a mile underwater—is slowly showing signs of an impending eruption. Although less well-known than other volcanic giants of ...

The blowout that was so evidently seen and heard . . . gave off three muffled cannon rounds like a bombardment, so loud that they could be heard for more than 30 leagues around the base. In the region ...

A submarine volcano 300 miles off the coast of Oregon could erupt for the first time since 2015, spewing “very fluid lava” into the sea where scientists were recently recording more than 1,000 daily ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Understanding the origins of the Ring of Fire, the most seismically active place on Earth, is famously difficult as geologic evidence is destroyed in ...

Picture this: a massive horseshoe of fire wrapping around an entire ocean, where the ground shakes almost daily and volcanoes erupt with terrifying regularity. The Ring of Fire spans approximately 40, ...

Kavachi Volcano in the Solomon Islands is one of the most active submarine volcanoes in the Pacific. According to the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, the volcano entered an eruptive phase in ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like ...

Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.