Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

Some volcanoes threatened populations with torrents ... To revisit some of the worst volcanic disasters of the past 400 years, click on the image at left.—Susan K. Lewis ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists ...

Kīlauea is a ‘shield volcano,’ which causes it to erupt in explosive and effusive cycles. The worst of its eruptions was the Keanakakoi eruption, recorded in November 1790. Classified as a ...

Long-quiet volcanoes in the Cascades region of the Pacific Northwest are still underpinned by large reservoirs of magma, new research finds. The findings have implications for monitoring volcanoes ...

More than three-quarters of the town's citizens perished. The worst volcanic disaster in Japan's history occurred in the Unzen volcano complex on the island of Kyushu. Accounts of the day tell of ...