A lava fountain was visible at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano during episode 16 of its latest eruption on April 1. Footage captured by Chenay Noelani Borja shows lava shooting high into the air on Tuesday.

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Composite volcanoes are the most common type of ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface.

Businesses and homes in Jeffersontown, Kentucky – a suburb of Louisville – were severely damaged on Thursday, April 3, after a tornado ripped through the area the previous evening. In video posted to ...

Editor's note:Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. The episodic summit eruption of Kīlauea in ...

New Zealand's High Court has cleared the three owners of liability for deaths and harm from a 2019 eruption.