Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...

Mantle plumes were the implicit link in previous studies relating BLOBS to giant volcanic eruptions. Their shape is a bit ...

The Boring Volcanic Field consists of 80 known volcanic vents. More vents likely exist but were buried by the Missoula floods about 15,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age.

Located in the Ogasawara Island chain in the Pacific Ocean, the volcano has not erupted for 100 years. But three weeks ago, it began to explode, creating a plume so massive that NASA could see it ...

The eruption of an underwater volcano off the coast of a Japanese island has led to the creation of a new island. Researchers have been watching the underwater volcano for decades. Located in the ...

The 2013 explosion of the Nishinoshima volcano in Japan led to the creation of a volcanic island that grew in size for a decade. However, experts say this volcanic land growth is expected.

Located in the Ogasawara Island chain in the Pacific Ocean, the volcano has not erupted for 100 years. But three weeks ago, it began to explode, creating a plume so massive that NASA could see it ...