"Our findings confirm there was an explosion, possibly due to a gas-compressed rock, which released energy that equated to five of the largest underground nuclear explosions conducted by North Korea ...

Japan is stepping up its volcano research that trails far behind its advanced studies on earthquakes despite being home to 111 active volcanoes, about 10 percent of the global total.

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised on June 3 the status of Kanlaon Volcano on Negros Island to Alert Level 2 due to "increasing unrest." ...

TOKYO (AP) — Small tsunami waves splashed ashore on remote Japanese islands Tuesday morning after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity. The offshore quake was not felt ...

Jayme Margolin-Sneider began her career doing seismic volcanology. Now, she works at an innovative high school program in the St. Vrain Valley school district.

I don't think people should be concerned when there's a felt earthquake here and there in our region, except in the sense ...

Charlotte Lytton and Matthew Abbott traveled to Tonga to report this story. All photographs were made in May 2023. Sept. 1 at 6:00 a.m. Warning: This graphic requires ...

"At Mount Adams the small cluster of detected events is out of the ordinary, given how quiet the volcano has been for the past 40 years," he told Live Science in an email. "This is no cause for ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK ... U.S. futures slipped and oil prices also fell. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index gained 1.9% to 39,354.63 after the yen sank against the U.S. dollar.

Mount Adams usually sees an earthquake every couple years. There were six in September 2024 alone. Scientists are sending ...

But one of the biggest threats to people who live near the volcano are lahars, or muddy flows of rock, ash and ice that rush downstream like fast flowing concrete. The summit, which is covered in ...