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 ...

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Watch live as the world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa in Hawaii, erupts for the first time in almost 40 years ...

Around 74,000 years ago, a volcano called Toba in Sumatra exploded, and some scientists think it had a serious impact on the ...

The eruptions at Kilauea prompted closures at a national park and part of a highway because of falling glassy volcanic ...

Massive volcano in Japan refilling 7,300 years after eruption, offering new insight into supervolcano behavior and future risks ...

Mount Shasta presents a unique challenge that most other active volcanoes don't for USGS scientists. The only place to sample ...

On June 15, 1991, the island of Luzon in the Philippines was ground zero for the second-largest volcanic eruption of the 1900s when Mount Pinatubo blew its top. This historic natural event set massive ...

If Kīlauea’s Episode 44 of lava fountaining happens during a period of southerly winds, it could cause volcanic gas, or vog, ...

Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano was putting on a spectacular show Tuesday evening, with its latest eruptive episode producing arching bands of red lava higher than some skyscrapers. The volcano's full bloom ...