Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

Volcanic eruptions can have dramatic consequences. But how can we anticipate this phenomenon, which unfolds up to tens of kilometers beneath the surface? A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), ...

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A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the work, ...

Using a novel imaging technique for volcanoes that produces high-resolution pictures of seismic wave properties, a new study reveals a large, previously undetected body of mobile magma underneath ...

A newly mapped fracture beneath an urban volcano has sharpened long-standing fears about how modern cities cope with geologic risk. The discovery of this deep structural break, running directly under ...

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal ...

Volcanoes can behave in strikingly different ways, even when they appear nearly identical. Some release slow, steady lava flows.

By Isabel Gil The Smith family referred to the back part of their property as “the wasteland.” It opens up to the North Fork ...

Rice farmers living in Sidoarjo Regency, Indonesia, awoke to a strange sight on May 29, 2006. The ground had ruptured overnight and was spewing out steam. In the following weeks, water, boiling-hot ...