Rather than a single giant chamber, the Yellowstone Caldera is made up of a complex system that includes a shallow magma ...

A supervolcano that once shook the Earth is quietly recharging—and scientists are finally seeing how it happens. Scientists ...

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what ...

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, ...

Understanding what triggers large volcanic eruptions is crucial for hazard assessment, but the exact mechanism driving these ...

Scientists reveal how the behavior of gases inside magma chambers could trigger the eruption of major volcanoes.

The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai ...

Scientists believe the Akahoya eruption devastated the Jōmon people, who inhabited the area now known as Japan between 14,000 ...

This value is usually about 2,100 to 2,190 degrees and can be measured in a few different ways. Calibrated thermal ...

A massive volcanic eruption can cool the planet within months. What happens next may take centuries. Currently, this potential consequence is a large part of current research being conducted on the ...

Explosive tropical volcanic eruptions can set off a chain reaction in the atmosphere that weakens the Asian summer monsoon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The June 12, 1991, eruption column from Mount Pinatubo was taken from the east side of Clark Air Base. (CREDIT: U.S. Geological ...