Filipinos may be familiar with Hakone as a sardines brand, but this town in Japan is a lesser-known tourist destination close to Tokyo that offers unique travel experiences ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

Sakurajima volcano erupted, sending an ash cloud 1,100 meters into the sky in Japan. Officials said the explosive eruption ...

Sakurajima unleashed a powerful explosion at 8:13 p.m. on January 30, sending a towering plume of ash 2,700 meters above the ...

By analyzing sulfur and volcanic ash entrained in ice cores, researchers pinpointed a caldera in the remote Kuril Islands as ...

Japan is crisscrossed with 111 active volcanoes. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) is responsible for monitoring volcanic activity and providing related disaster preparedness information.

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania–which last erupted about 360,000 years ago and Japan’s Mount Fuji–317 years ago–are both currently considered to be dormant volcanoes. However, new research ...

It is vital to establish a reliable system to monitor volcanic activity. At the same time, experts must be trained who can support the endeavor. Japan has 111 active volcanoes, some of which have ...

For a third day, thousands of people fled the Greek island of Santorini by sea and air on Tuesday, as more earthquakes shook ...

The active Sakurajima stratovolcano in Kagoshima, Japan, erupted on Sunday, sending a huge plume of ash into the sky. Dramatic timelapse footage captured the ash cloud shooting from the volcano's ...

Using new ice core techniques, scientists have concluded that the dark, chilly year of 1831 was due to the massive eruption of a volcano north of Japan. The year 1831 was a very nasty one in terms ...