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Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, ...

Spanish and French researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic ...

April 9 (UPI) --Large volcanic eruptions can trigger the formation of superheated gas-and-ash clouds. These pyroclastic density currents, or pyroclastic flows, are the most lethal volcanic threat.

Christelle Wauthier, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State, will deliver a talk titled "Imaging Deformation Processes in Areas Prone to ...

Nearly 200,000 people live, work or pass through California’s volcanic hazard zones on a daily basis, researchers said Monday in a report broadly assessing what could be at risk from an eruption. The ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly 200,000 people live, work or pass through California’s volcanic hazard zones on a daily basis, researchers said Monday in a report broadly assessing what could be at risk ...

A long quiet volcano in Ethiopia has roared back to life, blasting ash roughly 9 miles into the sky and catching both nearby communities and scientists off guard. After an estimated 12,000 years ...