The documentary highlighted that such an eruption could instantly claim the lives of up to 90,000 people. The destruction ...

When people think about volcanoes, they often picture places like Hawaii or Yellowstone—not Colorado. But did you know that ...

Beneath Yellowstone lies a magma reservoir, pulsing with molten and superheated rock and exsolved gases. Scientists have long ...

Scientists have found previously undocumented ash deposits buried beneath the Lava Creek Tuff in Wyoming — and at least one ...

The disaster was an eruption of the Yellowstone volcano when it was located in what is now southern Idaho. The hotspot has traveled across North America as the Earth’s crust has moved.

When volcanoes like Alaska’s Mount Spurr erupt, the ash can damage people’s lungs, smother crops and kill animals, and the ...

Ash from the eruption of a volcano in Yellowstone preserved more than 100 specimens of a prehistoric rhino at Nebraska’s Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park. (Image Courtesy of Michael ...

Dozens of mini-earthquakes have rattled Alaska's Mount Spurr over the past week, sparking fears among scientists that the towering 11,000-foot volcano may be on the verge of a major eruption.

He also said that it’s usual for these eruptions to start with lower flows, then get higher, as it continues. Kilauea volcano has not had an episodic eruption since 1986. “They’re not common ...