March 27 marks the anniversary of the onset of Mauna Loa’s dramatic 1868 eruption, when lava flows from the Southwest Rift Zone severely impacted the Ka‘u district. However, this may not have been the ...

During the 1970s, a chain of earthquakes began emanating from the caldera, causing the ground to experience episodes of pronounced unrest and to blow up and collapse. The frequency in the area during ...

Authorities have released details of dozens of illegal buildings on the Greek island of Santorini, which seismologists say ...

Researchers have found that half of all active volcanoes are exposed to the risk of torrential rains linked to climate change ...

Video footage captured by Scott Malis during the volcano's 11th episode shows lava spewing out of Kilauea volcano and spinning into the air.

ROME : A 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck the area around Naples overnight, causing one light injury and some structural ...

First look at the island may offer the picture of a dead caldera but a closer look reveals that the caldera actually holds a ...

The U.S. Geological Survey describes lavanado as a wind vortex within the caldera, a large depression formed by the collapse of a volcano's central part after an eruption. The video of the ...

But a massive eruption led to its collapse, forming the vast caldera we see today. Measuring about 20 kilometers in diameter, the conservation area is a natural fortress that shelters an ...

One person was injured by the collapse of a false ceiling ... Europe’s largest active caldera—the hollow left after an eruption. But many of the 500,000 inhabitants living in the danger ...