Volcanic Eruption News

Volcano experts started Sunday their close watch on Mayon Volcano in Legazpi City, Albay, showing signs of unrest, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said Sunday.

Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano erupted June 12, prompting goregous sunsets like the one in this photo taken by Rick Schrantz of Nicholasville, Kentucky on June 29.

Rarely does a name say it all, but in the case of the Russian River Valley it is true.

FROM the island's popular Taco Bell Fast Food in Chalan Kanoa comes a new item on its menu that would set tongues literally wagging from its taste.

A crack team of "rapid response" volcano experts scrambled to the South Pacific Ocean last month to find something rarely seen by human eyes: an underwater eruption exploding into the inky, cold depths and spewing lava onto the ocean floor.

A previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260 million years ago has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds.

Many people in the United States and Europe are seeing gorgeous lavender sunsets lately thanks to the eruption more than two weeks ago of Russia's Sarychev Peak volcano.

Hawaii offers the rare sight of hot lava flowing straight into the sea. Photo / Big Island Visitors Bureau/Charlene Meyer This is the first in a series of 12 stories about unique Hawaiian experiences.

During the past decade, residents of Pasto, Colombia, and neighboring villages near Galeras, Colombia's most dangerous volcano, have been threatened with evacuation, but compliance varies.

The Alaska Volcano Observatory is lowering the alert level for Mount Redoubt roughly three months after an eruption disrupted air traffic and sent mud flows toward an oil terminal.

Astronauts got a clear view of Mount Fuji as the International Space Station passed over it in April.

A chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.

In Alaska, there are 52 potentially active volcanoes, with Mount Redoubt currently denoted as active.

Astronauts on the International Space Station were in the right place at the right time.

Astronaut photograph ISS020-E-9048 was acquired on June 12, 2009, with a Nikon D2XS digital camera fitted with a 400 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center.

A chance recording by astronauts on the International Space Station has captured the moment a volcano explosively erupted, sending massive shockwaves through the atmosphere.

ASTRONAUTS have captured a stunning image of a volcanic eruption blowing a hole through the clouds.

Volcano watchers will get the opportunity to observe Russia's Far East volcanoes in action online from September, the head of a local station said on Wednesday.

An amazing new picture from space reveals a volcanic eruption in its earliest stage, with a huge plume of ash and steam billowing skyward and creating a shock wave in the atmosphere.

Washington, June 23 : Archaeologists have analyzed the origin of 131 flakes of obsidian, a volcanic glass, to better understand how people settled and interacted in the inhospitable Kuril Islands in the Western Pacific Ocean.