In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding ...

Many Hawaiʻi Island communities downwind from the eruptive vents in the southwest portion of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater inside the summit caldera of Kīlauea have been affected by tephra fall since the ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK (HawaiiNewsNow) - After five days of volcanic activity, the eruption in Kilauea’s middle East Rift Zone has paused Friday morning but an eruption could occur again in ...

Most webcams used by the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory take a snapshot every few minutes to conserve bandwidth, but three webcams are currently “livestreaming” — meaning they transmit real-time ...

Researchers have identified 138 candidate subglacial volcanoes hidden beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, 91 of which had never been recognized before, raising serious questions about what happens ...

Deep under the frozen desert of western Antarctica, a hidden danger slumbers. Lurking beneath the massive, 1–2 kilometer-thick slab of frozen water lies an active volcanic rift, seething away in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Residents ride a tuk-tuk taxi along a road damaged by multiple earthquakes near the town of Kabanna in the north of Ethiopia.

Kilauea Volcano resumed erupting this evening on the middle East Rift Zone. The eruption, which began about 6 p.m., is occurring within a closed and remote area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Kilauea is one of the most active volcanoes in the world with eruptions common both at its summit caldera and within its two rift zones. Frequent earthquakes associated with volcanic activity can help ...

Unless you're a meteorologist or you live in an area with an active volcano, you may not know that a hot spot can refer to more than just Wi-Fi. From your social feeds to news articles, terms like ...

When magma moves into the rift zone of a Hawaiian volcano, there is understandably a lot of excitement and apprehension. How far will the magma go, and will it erupt? But even long after the activity ...