There are around 1,500 known active volcanoes worldwide. A volcano is considered active if it has erupted in the last 10,000 years. Around 40 to 60 volcanoes erupt every year.

Mount Rainier has rattled through thousands of tiny earthquakes this year, a reminder that America’s most lethal volcano is very much alive beneath its ice. Those quakes, and a burst of viral alarmism ...

Mount Rainier’s seismic sensors showed unusual activity for several days, prompting widespread attention online, but experts told KIRO 7 News the readings came from a malfunctioning instrument rather ...

The Lake Nyos and Lake Monoun disasters were unlike any volcanic eruption before them. Instead of lava or ash, these lakes ...

Peggy Short-Nottage and her husband joined sightseers rushing to Mount St. Helens when volcanic activity escalated in the spring of 1980. Instead of hopping in a car and making the drive to ...

Autopsies showed that most of the people killed in the eruption likely died from asphyxiation after inhaling hot ash, according to the USGS. Truman, who owned a lodge on Spirit Lake for more than 50 ...

Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The disease may have been carried by fleas infected with the bubonic plague that ...

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, scientists say. Clues preserved in tree rings suggest the eruption ...