“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

The next time you're served a flat Coke, impress your friends with volcano jargon. Complain to the waiter that your beverage is "depleted of volatiles." Then, suggest that if the cola were to be ...

One of the most explosive volcanoes in U.S. history began its eruption with a trickle, not a blast. Mount St. Helens' gas-laden magma oozed into the cone before the mountain finally erupted in 1980.

The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves – erupted in April 2015, spewing a mile’s worth of lava onto the sea floor.

The explosiveness of a volcanic eruption depends on how many gas bubbles form in the magma – and when. Until now, it was thought that gas bubbles were formed primarily when the ambient pressure ...

A Russian town has been hit by a devastating double whammy – an exploding volcano and an earthquake. Shocking footage has emerged from several areas surrounding the Kamchatka — Bezymyanny volcano ...

A Dec. 13 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows a man talking in front of a video of people fleeing down a mountain away from a column of smoke. “Here’s an update on the now-exploding ...

Dozens of people were ordered to evacuate their homes after a fiery volcanic eruption in southern Japan on Sunday as the national weather agency issued its top-level alert for the mountain. Television ...

MANILA — Philippine authorities have urged a "total evacuation" of nearly half a million people near the capital Manila after a volcano spewed ash up to nine miles into the air Sunday, prompting ...