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NASA Odyssey orbiter snapped a first-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above some clouds before dawn. It’s twice as tall as Earth’s largest volcano ...
Videos circulating on social media showed visitors rushing to descend the mountain as volcanic plumes rose overhead.
If an eruption happens, it would likely occur at Crater Peak, shown in the background of this summit photograph. Over the past 12 months, an Alaskan volcano named Mount Spurr has become noticeably ...
During many of these eruptions, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) field crews have documented “ooze outs”—where lava squeezes out from underneath the solidified surface crust onto the ...
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii used furniture to block a bedroom door and shield themselves from the eruption of ...
The Fagradalsfjall Volcano, a raised crater of bubbling lava—glowing bright yellow in an expanse of dark gray—is the latest eruption heralding Iceland’s new period of volcanic activity.
The first sign of an eruption was recorded on March 20, 1980, when a magnitude 4.2 earthquake caused snow avalanches to occur on parts of the volcano, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).
"That's nice," she said, unconcerned. She had no idea her geologist husband had spent the morning in a plane flying by an erupting volcano. At 8:32 a.m. Pacific Time that day, a magnitude 5.1 ...
When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, hundreds of square miles surrounding the volcano were flattened ... Within the first few years of the eruption, a few frog species returned.
The Sakurajima volcano eruption triggered ash plumes in Japan. Timelapse footage shows the volcano sending a towering plume of ash and smoke soaring up to 3,000 metres into the sky.