Tens of thousands of hidden earthquakes were recently discovered beneath the Yellowstone volcano by a group of international ...

As part of a growing national effort -to understand seafloor hazards, scientists from the United States Geological Survey’s Volcano Science Center are working across agencies to investigate how ...

American Samoa is a United States territory which comprises the easternmost islands of a volcanic island chain formed by the Samoan hotspot in the South Pacific Ocean. Its small islands are the tops ...

The Ring of Fire spans approximately 40,000 kilometers and surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean, touching continents from Asia ...

A new study has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions of Ontake Volcano in ...

The July 30 8.8 magnitude earthquake near the Kamchatka Peninsula has triggered a series of volcanic activity in Russia. Officials report the rare event of six eruptions since the earthquake. The Ring ...

Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There is danger lurking on the sea floor off the Pacific Northwest’s coast: After centuries of ...

The volcano has caused part of the Kamchatka Peninsula to shift southeastward. The massive magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula last week has triggered the activity of ...

Scientists have recorded the "largest" earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier in Washington state since 2009, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The swarm at the second-most seismically active volcano in ...

A new study, led by Professor Mike Kendall from the Department of Earth Sciences, has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team ...