Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, ...

Volcanic eruptions are notoriously hard to predict in advance, but after 10 years of research, one team thinks they have the ...

The Ontong Java Plateau (OJP), located in the Pacific Ocean, formed around 110 to 120 million years ago through massive submarine volcanic eruptions. This event is considered the most extensive ...

It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.

Lava flowed from the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano on Thursday 9 April, with fountains reaching heights of 625ft (190M), according to the United States Geological Survey. The geological agency ...

Far beneath the ocean near Japan, scientists have discovered that the magma system linked to the most powerful eruption of the Holocene is slowly rebuilding. By using seismic imaging, researchers ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

As a third storm hit the islands, lava fountaining at Kīlauea set off episode 44 at 11:10 a.m. on Thursday, April 9.

A vast eruption beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean has been confirmed as the largest volcanic event ever recorded on the ocean floor. The 2012 explosion at the Havre volcano, near New Zealand, ...

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 the volcanoes ...

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

A hidden carbon film from ordinary air may be the key to volcanic lightning, explaining how identical ash particles build ...