Sacrifices of “sun stones” occurred around the same time a volcanic eruption in 2900 BC dimmed the sun throughout Northern Europe, according to a new study.

Using ice core samples, researchers linked a natural disaster with a trove of nearly 5,000-year-old artifacts discovered at ...

Northern California's Sáttítla Highlands are a testament to the region's volcanic past, with the landscape dramatically ...

A woman used Takis chips to start a fire in a Missouri home, police say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman accused of using Takis chips to start a fire with three other people inside a home is now ...

Mount Semeru in East Java, Indonesia, erupted again on Wednesday, sending ash into the skies over Lumajang Regency, local authorities reported. A column of volcanic ash was thrown approximately 1 ...

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The ash emission event lasted 111 minutes long, PHIVOLCS said in its bulletin. The 23 volcanic earthquakes recorded included three volcanic tremors lasting four to 111 minutes long, the agency said.

Americans need not panic about waking up under a blanket of molten ash anytime soon, lead author Nifna Bennington, geophysicist of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told the Washington Post.

volcanic ash and toxic gases into the atmosphere Some eruptions are huge and kill lots of people but other eruptions can be small flows of lava that are easily avoided Volcanoes normally give off ...

MANILA, Philippines — Kanlaon Volcano in the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental had seven ash emissions and 28 volcanic earthquakes on New Year’s Day, according to the ...

Magma underneath the Yellowstone Caldera — one of Earth’s biggest volcanic complexes — may be moving northeast, according to a study released by the United States Geological Survey (USGS ...

The mystery location of a giant volcanic eruption that has puzzled scientists ... and identified a "perfect fingerprint match" of the ash deposits. "Only in recent years have we developed the ...