Mount Shasta, a steep-sided Cascade Range stratovolcano in Northern California, looms above Little Glass Mountain, a thick obsidian flow erupted from the Medicine Lake shield volcano about 1,000 years ...
Hoping to make the system clearer to the public and emergency officials, the U.S. Geological Society has revamped its nationwide volcano warning level system. Starting Sunday there will be four ...
Across the United States, scientists who track the country’s most powerful volcano systems are picking up new signals that deserve close attention, but not panic. From the restless magma reservoir ...