Most interest has been focused on the volcanoes closes to population centers: 11,069-foot Mount Spurr, located about 70 miles west of Anchorage; 5,905-foot Makushin, 16 miles from the busy fishing ...

Most interest has been focused on the volcanoes closest to population centers: 11,069-foot Mount Spurr, located about 70 miles west of Anchorage; 5,905-foot Makushin, 16 miles from the busy ...

Nearby volcanoes Makushin and Okmok are unlikely to be affected by the quake, an expert said. (Alaska Earthquake Center) A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck about 58 miles southwest of Unalaska ...

Fairbanks-based Chena Power is starting a subsidiary called Alaska Geothermal Partners to help others tap into the Earth’s ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

MANILA, Philippines — A 78-minute-long ash emission was observed from the crater of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).

Tremors as strong as magnitude five have raised concerns the volcano that forms Santorini's steep, picturesque cliffs, could erupt. The risk is high enough that Greek authorities convened an ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an unreadable state. Image: An X-ray scan of part of one of the scrolls. Pic ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano began a new series of eruptions in December 2024. The world's most active volcano, located in Kilauea, Hawaii, resumed its latest eruption on Wednesday. Volcanic activity ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the status of Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island to Alert Level 3 after its explosive eruption on Dec. 9 ...