About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that ...

Suggested Citation: "3 Forecasting Eruptions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest ...

Volcanic eruptions are usually associated with heat, fire, and destruction, yet some of the most powerful eruptions in history have temporarily cooled the entire planet. Scientists have documented ...

How do volcanoes work? What happens beneath their surface? What causes the vibrations – known as tremor – that occur when magma or gases move upward through a volcano's conduits? Professor Dr. Miriam ...

A global early-warning system strives to keep aircraft safe from volcanic eruptions. Mark Piesing A small aircraft flies over the Bardarbunga volcano as it spews lava and ash in southeast Iceland. The ...

Simon Carn, a world authority on satellite-powered analysis of global volcanic activity, is the winner of the 2024 Michigan Technological University Research Award. Carn has scaled many mountains ...

Volcanologist Jenni Barclay joins WIRED to answer the internet's lava-hot questions about volcanoes. How do volcanoes cause lightning? What would happen if you fell into a volcano? What do ...

Some volcanoes, such as the Cascade volcanoes up in Washington and Oregon, are of the type called a stratovolcano. These steep volcanoes sometimes erupt explosively and other times have calmer lava ...

For years, the Methana volcano located in Greece has been categorised as a dormant volcano since it has always appeared ...