There are two main types of volcano - composite and shield. The two types of volcano form in different places and have very different characteristics. Ash released from shield volcanoes often ...

Usually, "earthquakes at this volcano are located at a rate of about 1 earthquake every 2-3 years," said the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO). Mount Adams is the second ...

Papua New Guinea's Mount Ulawun volcano continued to belch out smoke and ash on Tuesday, after a major eruption Monday sent a plume of smoke 15,000 meters (50,000 feet) into the atmosphere ...

Olympus Mons, on the planet of Mars, is the largest and youngest volcano in the solar system. Found in the Tharsis Montes region near the Martian equator, it is one of a dozen large volcanoes ...

Kilauea is a highly active shield volcano, estimated to be between 210,000 and 280,000 years old, having emerged from the sea about 100,000 years ago. Its last major eruption occurred between May ...

A new volcano that has been belching smoke and bad smells on San Benedicto Island, off the west coast of Mexico, probably blew its top two months ago. In July the Navy SOFAR (sound fixing and ...

Millions of people around the world live near one of the roughly 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth—from Italy’s Campi Flegrei to Indonesia’s Merapi to the United States’ Mount Rainier.

Earth’s extinct volcanoes might be an untapped source of highly in-demand rare earth elements. A set of lab-based experiments revealed that some of these 17 elements could be lurking in the ...

Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history, and now, two years later, new research has revealed its main trigger. The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano ...