Sometimes eruptions are explosive and lava is thrown out as volcanic bombs. Hotspots are places where the magma rises up through the crust. They are caused by a static source of magma, often away ...

A volcano in Iceland, Sunddhnuksgigar, has erupted, sending lava towards homes and businesses and causing urgent evacuations ...

Research from scientists at Macquarie University has pinpointed locations where critical metals ... and outwards towards the edges, so that volcanic activity is common around their edges," says ...

The National Volcano Early Warning and Monitoring System, or NVEWS, was first authorized by congress in 2019 to be ...

There are as many as 169 volcanoes that are deemed as 'active' across America's 50 states, but it is Alaska's 11,070-ft-high ...

Researchers have discovered a potentially younger and active volcanic hotspot beneath the Cook Islands' waters, prompting ...

A magma hotspot is a localized area in Earth's mantle where unusually hot rock rises toward the surface, causing volcanic activity. Unlike volcanoes at tectonic plate boundaries, hotspots occur in ...

Iceland sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic. The most disruptive incident in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which spewed clouds of ash into the ...

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has erupted repeatedly for more than a year again belched ...

“I would ask that more consideration be shown towards civil defense.” Iceland sits above a volcanic hot spot in the North Atlantic. The most disruptive incident in recent times was the 2010 ...