The outcome is a spectacular vortex of dark smoke caused by the large lava fountains to create a "volnado" phenomenon.

The scientists used a climate model to simulate eruptions that injected up to 160 million tonnes of sulfur into the stratosphere. The largest volcanic event of the past 6,000 years was the eruption of ...

Volcanic activity can range from gaseous emissions with nonexplosive lava all the way to what is known as super-eruptions. Super-eruptions are massive and explosive and have widespread and sometimes ...

Satellites detect that Iran's Taftan volcano has risen 3.5 inches, which is an indication of internal pressure and volcanic ...

A large volcano eruption in the Philippines sent a plume of ash and gases up to three kilometers (1.8 miles) high following a powerful blast that sent villagers fleeing to emergency shelters Credit: ...

Through all of those changes, Amboy Crater - the large black cinder cone volcano that looms over Amboy and Route 66 - has ...

The most accurate 3D images of the interior of a volcano, Axial volcano off Oregon's coast, ever captured have implications ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor to an eruption among the several scenarios being considered, the Icelandic meteorological ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – New Cornell University led-research challenges the long-standing belief that active volcanoes have large magma bodies that are expelled during eruptions and then dissipate over time as ...

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