Hawaii's Kilauea volcano shot lava as high as 1,000 feet into the air during its most recent eruptive episode, geologists said Thursday. Related video above: Hawaii's Kilauea volcano spews lava ...

Lava from an eruption. Most volcanic eruptions are caused by pieces of the Earth's crust, called tectonic plates, moving towards each other. Some volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii are caused by ...

The crust of volcanically ... of the tens of thousands of volcanoes that punctuate its surface. Just like how paraffin wax rises and cools in a lava lamp, convection within planets sees hot ...

Icelandic experts predict that the so-called fissure eruptions, characterised by lava flowing out of long cracks in the earth's crust rather than a single volcanic opening, could repeat themselves ...

AEL KERMAREC / AFP A fishing village in southwest Iceland was evacuated on Tuesday, April 1, after lava began spewing from a volcanic eruption, the eighth to hit the region since the end of 2023.

Mount Spurr has two vents, or openings, in the Earth's crust from which lava, volcanic gas and other byproducts of volcanic activity escape. The vent at the highest point on Spurr, called the ...

HONOLULU — An erupting Hawaii volcano once again began shooting fountains of lava that reached hundreds of feet high on Tuesday. Fountains reached heights of 400 feet to 500 feet in the early ...

The Yellowstone Caldera, a volcanic caldera and supervolcano located ... enabling deductions about the conductivity structure of the crust. The study, published in the journal Nature, revealed ...

Lava from Hawaii's most active volcano created fountains that reached 700 feet Thursday during the latest episode of an ongoing eruption. Kilauea began continuously releasing lava from its summit ...

has experienced a resurgence of volcanic activity on the Reykjanes peninsula in recent years. These eruptions, categorised as fissure eruptions, involve lava flowing from long cracks in the earth’s ...