I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

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.

Officials have issues a volcano watch to residents due to the lava flow. Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is erupting again, prompting a volcano watch alert in ...

The quakes were sparked by eruptions from an underwater volcano, the summit of which is just 500 metres below sea level. The Enmedio volcano is found between Tenerife and Gran Canaria and went off ...

LUCENA CITY — Taal Volcano in Batangas province recorded ... is unlikely to progress into a magmatic eruption based on the background levels of volcanic earthquake activity and the detected ...

The land around a strange volcano in Tanzania is bulging, suggesting magma may be accumulating in a shallow reservoir beneath the surface. The movement could be a precursor to an eruption ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) on Wednesday said the Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Island could potentially experience its first magmatic ...

The Napau Crater eruption last week in a remote area of Kilauea volcano is officially over ... Volcanic gas emissions have decreased to near background levels. All of these factors indicate ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised on June 3 the status of Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island to Alert Level 2 due to "increasing unrest." ...

When a volcano is about to erupt, the surrounding land puffs up like a squeezed balloon. The technical term is "transient deformation," and Virginia Tech researchers have detected and tracked this ...

The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says Kilauea erupted briefly Sunday night in an area of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park that’s closed to the public.

The Taal Volcano has erupted on Wednesday afternoon,the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) has said. In an advisory later afternoon on Wednesday, Phivolcs said, "Ongoing ...