An explosive eruption could send an avalanche of hot gas, ash and rock fragments racing downhill at speeds of up to 700 km an hour, burning everything in its path. This Pyroclastic flow can cause ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - The Axial Seamount is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, sitting 300 miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly a mile underwater in the Pacific Ocean, along the ...

Japanese meteorological agencies said the Shinmoedake volcano had erupted in the early hours of Thursday morning, August 28, sending a plume of ash 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles) into the sky. Officials ...

The Axial Seamount has been dubbed the “most active submarine volcano” in the region Craig Tuttle/Design Pics Editorial/Universal Images Group via Getty The Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano off ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon captured the media’s interest earlier this year when scientists predicted it could erupt soon. The volcano is located about 300 ...

A volcano on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for the first time in at least 400 years. The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash more than 3.7 miles into the sky, ...

LEMBATA, Indonesia — Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki volcano in south-central Indonesia erupted on Tuesday, spewing towering columns of hot ash into the air. Authorities raised the eruption alert to the ...

Less than a week after a massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake sparked tsunami warnings throughout the Pacific Ocean, a volcano in far eastern Russia, on Sunday, spewed hot ash miles into the sky, marking ...

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An earlier version of this story was published in 2024. It looks like just another hill in Sussex County, but you wouldn’t have wanted to have been standing there 420 million years ago. That’s about ...