A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this ...

Supervolcanoes, defined by VEI 8 eruptions, are surprisingly popular tourist destinations. Yellowstone, Toba, and Taupō ...

Newberry Volcano in central Oregon contains ideal conditions for a superhot rock enhanced geothermal system candidate. An ...

Even if you don't live near an ocean, there's a good chance that you're reasonably close to a lake in the U.S. these deep ...

Pyroclastic deposits scattered across Lombok form a distinctive landscape that preserves the record of this ancient ...

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Retired USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist Don Swanson stands in front of an outcrop near Uekahuna at the summit of ...

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, ...

A new model of Yellowstone’s magma system suggests it is fueled by melts from the shallow mantle, guided by tectonic forces, ...

The Kikai Caldera. (Seama Nobukazu/CC BY 4.0) About 7,300 years ago, a volcano off Japan's Kyushu island unleashed what remains the largest known eruption of the Holocene, our current geological epoch ...

Take a tour through volcanic history on the edge of the Sierra Nevada near Mammoth Lakes, California. Between the tall ...