An "unusually large" ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern ...

Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...

A volcanic eruption began Thursday in Iceland, sending molten lava gushing from a long fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula and causing evacuations. It is the volcano system’s sixth eruption since ...

Mexico’s Popocatépetl volcano has long drawn attention for its size, constant activity, and glowing plumes of smoke and ash, ...

Plans are underway to implement a new volcano monitoring system across the United States. The radar-based system, called VolcSARvatory, was developed in a joint effort by the University of Alaska ...

Topographic mapping has been a key component of volcano monitoring for decades, helping scientists to study morphologic changes and predict the paths of lava flows during eruptions. Lidar systems are ...

A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at ...

A volcano system in southwestern Iceland erupted for the fifth time in five months. Why does this keep happening? And will it happen again?

The Mount Etna volcano is a dynamic and complex system shaped by the interplay between magmatic processes and tectonic forces. Recent studies have revealed that deformation of the volcanic edifice is ...

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? When you ...