Look at that mountain! Imagine you are standing at the base of a volcano looking up. You were told that the volcano isn’t going to erupt anytime soon, but you notice a little bit of smoke (or is that ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Scientists have long been studying volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest. They monitor not only their movement but also the sounds they make. And now, one University of Oregon researcher ...

Eavesdropping on the rumblings of a volcano may help scientists predict when an eruption is coming, according to a recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. The study used ...

Listen to the sounds of a volcano. Volcanoes make noise. Lava and gas moving around can tell scientists what a volcano is doing. Listen.

A volcano in Ecuador with a deep cylindrical crater might be the largest musical instrument on Earth, producing unique sounds scientists could use to monitor its activity. New infrasound recordings of ...

Ecuador’s Cotopaxi volcano has a deep and distinct voice. Between late 2015 and early 2016, Cotopaxi repeated an unusual pattern of low-frequency sounds that researchers now say is linked to the ...

Researchers have recorded a strange new sound that started coming from a volcano in Ecuador after it erupted in the fall of 2015 — and the sound is incredibly soothing. It sounds like a napping ...

Emilie Hooft receives funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The experiment and analysis were supported by National Science Foundation grant number OCE-1459794 to the University of Oregon ...

Mount Shinmoedake in Japan erupted on March 10. The explosive sounds from the volcano were so loud, they could be heard from a long distance away as well.

With volcanoes in Hawaii and Guatemala causing such widespread destruction, here's some cool, less violent news about these geological monsters. Scientists say that a volcano in Ecuador could be the ...