A dormant volcano in Ethiopia erupted after 10,000 years of silence. This event shows how the world's little-known volcanoes ...

Heather Handley is an associate professor of volcanic hazards and geoscience communication in the Department of Applied Earth Sciences at the University of Twente in Enschede, the Netherlands. Unlike ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born 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 ...

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What is the risk of a volcano erupting? To answer this question, scientists need information about its underlying internal structure. However, gathering this data can take several years of fieldwork, ...

Take one 55-gallon drum of water, one two-liter soda bottle full of liquid nitrogen, put them together and you get -- BOOM! Literally. That's how Augustana College professor Mike Wolf demonstrated to ...

Think of a volcano as a soda can. Shake the can, and gas and pressure build up inside. Open the top and bam! — an explosion occurs. Volcanoes work much the same way. The heat deep inside Earth is so ...

An underwater volcano off Oregon's coast is likely to erupt in 2025, according to scientists monitoring the situation. Axial Seamount—the most active volcano in the northeast Pacific Ocean—is located ...