Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. How and if a volcano explodes depends on how and when bubbles of ...

Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory ...

While the USGS scientists learned plenty about volcanism in El Salvador during this trip, it also provided key insights to bring home to our own volcanoes. Explosive eruptions in Hawaii are relatively ...

This video captured the swirling wind vortexes that formed on the very first day of the eruption at Halemaʻumaʻu Crater on June 7, 2023. Generated by the extreme heat rising from the newly opened vent ...

HONOLULU — Hawaii's Kilauea volcano resumed erupting Friday by shooting an arc of lava 100 feet (30 meters) into the air and across a section of its summit crater floor. It was Kilauea's 31st display ...

We are used to seeing eruptions from the summit region of Kilauea contained to the region that is referred to as Halema‘uma‘u ...