On the night of the 26th, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 occurred in Yamanashi Prefecture, Honshu, Japan. Local ...

Six volcanoes in far eastern Russia are now erupting following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks that shook the region last week. Klyuchevskaya erupted first, on July 30. It had already ...

In the three years since, HVO and the USGS earthquake hazards program continue to actively assess the region for local volcanic and earthquake activity. All volcanoes in American Samoa are currently ...

Located on the island of Sicily, in Italy, Mount Etna is one of the world's most active volcanoes. Documentation of its many eruptions stretches back as far as 2,700 years ago, with the most recent ...

The ongoing volcanic unrest at the highly populated Campi Flegrei caldera is accompanied by incremental seismic activity, ground uplift and geochemical anomalies that are raising severe public concern ...

Tens of thousands of earthquakes shook the Greek island of Santorini and the surrounding area at the beginning of the year. Now, researchers have published a comprehensive geological analysis of the ...

Volcanic eruptions, regardless of their magnitude, can result in catastrophic disasters. The 2014 hydrothermal eruption of Mt. Ontake, the second-highest active volcano in Japan, claimed 58 lives with ...

Fifty years ago this month, the largest Hawaii earthquake of the 20th and 21st centuries occurred. Earthquake shaking, as well as ground subsidence and local tsunami, contributed to a catastrophic ...

Residents and visitors across Tenerife and Gran Canaria have once again been advised to remain calm after thousands of people on both islands experienced a 4.1 magnitude earthquake. Scientists have ...