Geologists visited the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii to collect lava samples. Officials from the United States Geological ...

Hundreds of earthquakes have been detected beneath Mount Spurr in the past week, increasing the odds of an eruption at the ...

An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

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

Volcano scientists from around the world will gather from Feb. 9-14 in Hilo for the American Geophysical Union Chapman Conference on Caldera-forming Eruptions at Basaltic Volcanoes: Insights and ...

Renowned seismologist Costas Synolakis claimed that the earthquakes rattling Santorini may indicate the birth of a new ...

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...

The eruption of Santorini has long been linked to the fall of the Minoans. Does the evidence really support this conclusion, ...

A papyrus scroll carbonised by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius two millennia ago is slowly being read once again thanks to ...