Recent volcanic activity has been reported in multiple areas including: El Salvador, the Indonesian island of Sumatra, and an islet off Japan's Pacific coast. Residents near two o...
The eruption of the Chaparrastique volcano in El Salvador has lead authorities to call for an evacuation of villages located within 3 kilometers of the volcano. The volcano erupted...
A 7,025-foot volcano erupted in El Salvador Sunday, beginning at 10:30 a.m. sending up a shooting gas and smoke stream that reached over 3 miles high.
The cloud of dark ash th...
Frightened residents in the San Miguel region of El Salvador were ordered to evacuate after a volcano erupted Sunday morning.
According to a civil protection official,...
Mt. Etna in Sicily erupted over the weekend. Lava and hot ash began spewing out on Saturday, and tapered off on Sunday. Etna is Europe's most active volcano, with 16 paroxysmal, or...
An Indonesia volcano recently erupted for the third time in recent months. Mount Sinabung was the volcano that erupted, causing hundreds of villagers to evacuate.
The volcano u...
Mt. Sinabung is a pleistocene-to-holocene stratovolcano located in North Sumatra, Indonesia. It's OK if you aren't sure what exactly that means, because the word that is important...
It appears that disaster movies may be making a comeback. Director Paul W.S. Anderson of Resident Evil, Alien vs. Predator, and The Three Musketeers fam...
Peri Sasnett of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University has lead a team of researchers to study Ubehebe. Ubehebe is a large volcanic crater in the...