Most of them lived in villages on the slopes of the 3,763m-high volcano and were killed by what is known as pyroclastic flow, a searing cloud of debris. Fuego is a stratovolcano or composite volcano.

The Hunga Tonga underwater volcano was one of the largest ... More information: Jinyin Hu et al, A Composite Seismic Source ...

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

Discover the explosive forces that helped create some of the most dynamic worlds in our cosmic neighborhood – and what makes the volcanoes right here on Earth so special. National Corporate ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

MANILA, Philippines — Taal Volcano erupted in a phreatic event early Thursday morning, October 10, according to the state seismology bureau, Phivolcs The minor phreatic eruption, as captured by ...

MANILA, Philippines — A volcanic tremor at Taal Volcano persisted for 10 hours and 30 minutes from Saturday, October 12, to Sunday, October 13, according to Phivolcs. While Taal Volcano did not ...

A small phreatic eruption event was reported in Taal Volcano on Wednesday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) said on Thursday. In its bulletin, PHIVOLCS said the ...

HAWAII ISLAND, Hawaii (KHON2) — USGS officials are on high alert following heightened seismic activity at Kamaʻehuakanaloa volcano off Hawaiʻi Island. In this earthquake series, USGS officials ...

The country’s volcano monitoring agency increased the volcano’s alert status to the highest level and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) radius after midnight on ...