A dramatic lava collapse sent a glowing molten avalanche racing down the slopes of Indonesia’s Merapi Volcano. The footage ...

Nearly 10 yrs of drone surveys at Merapi volcano highlights the importance of hydrothermal weakening and structures hidden beneath younger lavas. A fracture system that formed in 2012 was subsequently ...

New research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that volcanic eruptions during the Ice Age may have triggered sudden climate change by disrupting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning ...

A major volcanic eruption in the southern Philippines in late 1640 AD may have led to the collapse of China's imperial Ming Dynasty years later, according to a new study that upends previous beliefs ...

Volcanic eruptions result from the ascent of magma from subsurface reservoirs to the Earth’s surface, where variations in pressure and volatile content determine whether eruptions are effusive or ...

A 100-to-300-foot wall of water crashing into New York City, Florida, and the entire East Coast sounds like the plot of a disaster movie. In fact, it was a TV show on Netflix from 2024 called La Palma ...

A massive volcanic eruption can cool the planet within months. What happens next may take centuries. Currently, this potential consequence is a large part of current research being conducted on the ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) logged fresh occurrences of lava effusion with collapse-fed pyroclastic density currents (PDCs) on Mayon Volcano at past midnight ...

Caldera formation arises when large volumes of magma are evacuated from a sub-surface reservoir, leading to gravitational collapse of the overlying rock into the evacuated space. The process begins ...

Philippines volcanic eruption may have led to collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty - Eruptions can be ‘stress multipliers’ of any ...