As American Samoa is within Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s area of responsibility (the Hawaiian and Samoan archipelagoes exist because of hot spot volcanism), observatory staff have visited at least ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the world's most active volcanoes, erupted Saturday, shooting a lava fountain an estimated ...

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On the night of Sept. 30, as flames, spatter and lava flows erupted from the north and south vents in Halemaʻumaʻu at the summit of Kīlauea, magma was also making a new path below the surface of the ...

Renewed activity at Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano has prompted temporary trail closures at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park after ...

Lava has filled most of the summit crater at Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano and pushed out into the valleys below it, the U.S. Geological Survey’s Alaska Volcano Observatory said in a hazard notice ...

The Kīlauea volcano shows renewed spattering at two vents as USGS scientists monitor for a possible 55th episode of lava ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii has erupted again this week in a national ...

Mount Spurr, whose volcanic ash darkened Anchorage’s skies in 1953 and 1992, may be building toward another eruption, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Alaska Volcano Observatory. For ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The planned lease termination of the Alaska Volcano Observatory in ...

You know that very special rock you couldn’t resist picking up and taking home? The one with the uncanny shape, the surprising colors, the strange veins? On Saturday, you can take that rock to a ...

During a two-week trip to American Samoa in August and September, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff repaired and serviced the volcano monitoring network and conducted joint K-12 outreach with ...