Japan’s most active volcano erupted on Saturday afternoon, sending an ash plume 3.4km into the sky, grounding flights and ...

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...

Following a changeable and – at times – wintry last few weeks, the thought of snow in May, sunless skies in June and and a ...

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Volcanoes are Earth’s geologic architects. They’ve created more than 80 percent of our planet’s surface, laying the foundation that has allowed life to thrive. Their explosive force crafts mountains ...

ARUSHA: TANZANIA is now officially home to the world’s largest volcanic debris avalanche deposits recorded at the foot of the ...

We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.

A new study led by University of Arizona researchers has uncovered how massive volcanic eruptions in the Andes Mountains ...

Tanzania is poised to enter global geological records following scientific confirmation that Mount Meru hosts one of the ...

NASA has contributed a complementary perspective from the air. Researchers used NASA airborne remote-sensing technology to ...

Scientists are monitoring seismic activity on Santorini, as small quakes near the caldera raise concerns about possible ...