As many as 30,000 Romans fled the ruined region in A.D. 79. But some returned, a new study reveals, and the city limped on as ...

Mount Fuji shows no immediate signs of an eruption, but officials in Tokyo have updated guidelines to follow in the event it ...

Over the past week, the volcano, which crosses Lumajang Regency and Malang Regency, East Java, has erupted 42 times. Semeru ...

The Chiltepe Peninsula formed from pyroclastic shield eruptions thousands of years ago. Low-density materials, including pumice, were violently ejected during these blasts, which ended approximately ...

A sudden increase in seismic activity at Alaska’s Mount Spurr has drawn fresh attention from scientists monitoring the volcano’s behavior. Experts now say this 11,000-foot stratovolcano, located just ...

The peninsula, located around 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the capital city of Managua, was formed by a series of ...

BACOLOD CITY—Kanlaon Volcano experienced another swarm of volcano-tectonic (VT) earthquakes on its northwestern flank that ...

The power of such eruptions is measured using the Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI), which is a scale that goes from one to ...

Volcanic eruptions remain one of Earth’s most dramatic natural phenomena, characterised by explosive discharges of ash, gas and pyroclastic materials that play a critical role in shaping the ...

Stromboli, a small volcanic island north of Sicily, has been erupting almost nonstop for more than two thousand years.