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 ...

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 ...

A volcano that erupted after being asleep for more than 100,000 years is leading more volcanologists to say we must redefine volcano activity to ensure eruptions don't surprise us.

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 ...

The last eruption of Greece’s Methana volcano was around 250 B.C.E. Ever since that event, which was recorded by the Greek historian Strabo, the mountain has lurked silently, just across the Saronic ...

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 ...