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.

The Durandag mud volcano, known for its periodic activity, entered a new eruption phase, producing a powerful outburst that ...

The Mayon Volcano sustained its effusive eruption for the 28th consecutive day on Tuesday, February 3 as the Philippine ...

Effusive eruption at Mayon Volcano in Albay, now in its 28th day, continues to generate incandescent lava flows that have reached a radial distance of 3.7 km from the crater in the Basud gullies or on ...

Even if a volcano is just a few miles away, you might not hear it erupt. How is that possible? It has to do with a phenomenon known as sound shadows! Hank will tell you all about it in this new ...

New seismic imaging shows magma lingering beneath quiet Cascade volcanoes, shaping how scientists monitor and plan for ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...

The eruption of Mt Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and one ancient library was burned to a crisp. However, scientists are now using machine learning and AI to decipher the ...

Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice ...

A research group has revealed through seismic wave analysis that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau—the ...

A research team from University of Tsukuba and collaborating institutions has clarified why M9-class megathrust earthquakes recur off the Kamchatka Peninsula with an unusually short cycle of 73 years.