If you live near one of the active volcanoes in the “ ring of fire ” that extends from southern British Columbia, to Washington State, Oregon, and Northern California, or if you near volcanos ...

That means they’re a mix of shattered rock and ash heated up to 1000°C, hot enough to burn bone and melt silver, that race down volcano slopes at up 200 meters a second in a swirling, fluid ...

The impending eruption of Alaska's Mt. Spurr is a timely reminder that, if you live near a volcano, you should be prepared in case it blows. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) says there ...

Living in the Shadow of a Volcano Kagoshima, Japan, home to 600,000 people, sits next to a volcano that erupts on a nearly daily basis. How do people live under constant threat of volcanic eruption?

But there's now a way to assess this process using crystals that grow inside volcanoes and act like a record of its eruption. Our latest study on crystals from Mount Etna in Italy has shown that ...

Perla Tijerina is living on Pico de Orizaba, the highest peak in Mexico and the tallest volcano in North America. The 31-year-old will live 18,620 feet above sea level for 32 days — a feat she ...

Kilauea volcano, on the Big Island of Hawaii, has been erupting continually along its East Rift Zone since 1983. Most of the time, the lava flows south toward the ocean, threatening nobody. But ...

Detecting a signal within earthquake waves called shear-wave splitting may improve early warning systems for volcano ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet into the air and across a section of its ...