Kilauea is in a unique phase of activity in Halema‘uma‘u, with 12 episodes of dual lava fountains since Dec. 23, 2024.

A volcano in southwestern Iceland erupted Thursday evening for the sixth time since December, spewing red lava through a new ...

Several past eruptions were characterized by similar lava fountaining episodes, including at the start of the Puʻuʻōʻō eruption in 1983, the start of the Maunaulu eruption in 1969 and the 1959 Kīlauea ...

This magma surges through the surface of the earth, then solidifies, resulting over time in a classic volcano cone. —Lexi Krock Note: Some of the text in this feature is adapted from materials ...

Hundreds of visitors who traveled to watch a once-in-800-year volcano eruption near Iceland’s capital Reykjavik had to evacuate the area after steam and lava started spurting from a new fissure.

The fissure measures about 1,000 feet long, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said new fissures, ground deformation and abundant volcanic gases indicate ...

A volcano erupted with lava spewing from a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland late Wednesday evening. It was its seventh eruption since December. Iceland's meteorological ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A small new fissure eruption in an ice-free area of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano system prompted authorities to raise their warning of the risk of ash to aviation to the ...

They form when magma rises into a fissure or creates a new crack by forcing its way through rock. Hundreds of dikes can invade the cone and inner core of a volcano, as they do in Nyiragongo ...