Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

Take Iceland, for example. With the region facing numerous eruptions from a volcano since the end of 2023, dramatic photos ...

The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory spearheads Volcano Awareness Month each January on the Island of Hawaii. This year, in ...

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again?

Volcanic activity in Iceland, monitored by the Iceland Metrological Office, has hazards similar to those in Hawaii: earthquakes, opening of new fissure systems, lava flows, tephra fall ...

“The pressure inside the volcano is building,” Chadwick said. “Eventually, it becomes too great and a crack opens up and lava spews out of the fissure.” On land, this is sometimes called a ...

spreading along a fissure that follows the undersea ridge. As more and more lava oozes out, large flows more than 100 metres thick will likely flatten out around the volcano, opening up new ...