Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

At Puʻuʻōʻō, fissures reopened on either side of the vent, while at Maunaulu, the eruption stalled and the vent collapsed ...

As the Maunaulu eruption waned, Kilauea summit inflated and two brief eruptions occurred in the latter half of 1971 — one in ...

January 2026The international APARC report on the Hunga volcanic eruption in 2022 provides new insights into the extent to ...

In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions of people. Its mission: figure ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea’s 31st ...

(WJW) — You don’t see this every day. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shared a video Tuesday showing what they described as a “volnado” forming near an erupting fountain of lava in Hawaii. “We know ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feetinto the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display of molten rock since ...