Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

The last time Kolumbo experienced a major eruption was 1650, coughing out ash seen as far away as Turkey. Pyroclastic flows – fast-moving, searingly hot clouds of volcanic ash and gases – killed 70 ...

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

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

When temperatures drop, 'ice volcanoes' rise. That's what's happening right now across upstate New York, and one of the most well-known formations that appears during cold winters is in Letchworth ...

What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

As residents flee the Greek Island of Santorini after a spate of tremors earlier this month, we look back at a catastrophic ...

Geologists visited the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii to collect lava samples. Officials from the United States Geological ...

Kanlaon Volcano has recorded 23 volcanic earthquakes in the past 24 hours, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

See 12 of the week’s most interesting images from around the world, as selected by Washington Post photo editors.

An eruption of Mount Churchill today similar to previous major plumes would bring much of the Northern Hemisphere to a ...

Since last week, thousands of residents have left the island by plane and ferry, as hundreds of earthquakes continue to shake ...