A major discovery beneath Yellowstone National Park has revealed a magma cap located nearly 2.4 miles below the surface, which could help prevent a massive volcanic eruption. Using advanced seismic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world every day, most volcanoes spend the majority of their time not erupting. To accurately forecast volcanic activity ...

Over the last year and a half, the historic episodic eruption at the summit of Kilauea has had 49 episodes of lava ...

Since December 2024, Kīlauea has settled into a predictable pattern, erupting roughly every one to three weeks. But that ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater at semiregular intervals since late last year, delighting residents, visitors and online viewers alike with a fire hose of molten ...

The Methana volcano in Greece, thought to be dormant for hundreds of thousands of years, has been found accumulating enormous amounts of magma underneath. For more than 100,000 years, the volcano ...

A volcano that slept for more than 100,000 years before erupting is blowing up our understanding of when volcanoes should be defined as active or extinct. Volcanologists officially classify sleeping ...

LMU volcanologists decipher the behavior of magma beneath an active volcano and reveal how it reacts to drilling. Although volcanic eruptions are spectacular natural events that occur around the world ...