Natural disasters were among the most destructive events faced by medieval societies. Earthquakes, floods, storms, and volcanic eruptions could devastate entire cities in an era without modern warning ...

A camera filming the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii captured its own destruction during an eruption. US Geological Survey (USGS) footage showed the remote device malfunctioning as the volcano, one of the ...

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About 290 miles off the coast of Cannon Beach, Oregon, lies an underwater volcano called Axial Volcano. Axial erupts about once every ten years. Twice in the past year, news outlets have reported that ...

In 1997, the Soufrière Hills volcano erupted on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, sending massive pyroclastic flows racing toward the capital city of Plymouth. Within hours, large parts of the city ...

Whenever Mt. Hood erupts, Portland will be glad to have David George. As a U.S. Geological Survey mathematician, George models landslides and lahars at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, ...

As the year 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on the historic past year of volcanic activity on the Island of Hawaii. Thirty-eight episodes of lava fountaining at the summit of Kilauea remind us that ...

When a volcano is dormant, it typically doesn't tend to make much noise. However, the Iliamna Volcano in Alaska is defying what we thought we knew about volcanos by rumbling despite being marked ...

We may know Pompeii for its destruction, but this intricate 3D rendering brings to life what a bustling city it once was ...