This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St.

When most of us think about active volcanoes in the U.S., Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier and a few others will first come to mind. However, one of the most active volcanoes in the region is about a ...

But as a shield volcano, Kilauea doesn’t have explosive, Mt. St. Helens-type eruptions. Instead, it emits a steady stream of fluid lava that generally flows gently down the side of the mountain ...

List of India’s Active and Dormant Volcanoes & India has one active volcano (Barren Island) and several dormant/extinct ones, ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete ...

During the Mount St. Helens eruptions ... Iezzi said in the Cascades, wind patterns would often direct any ash from an erupting volcano eastward whereas the lahar risk primarily impacts the ...

In 2010, a volcano eruption in Iceland disrupted air travel for days across Europe. The eruption expelled an ash cloud 30,000 ... Examples: Mount St. Helens, Mount Fuji, Mount Shasta, Mount ...

Read about the volcano that some believe ... forming secondary ash deposits several meters thick (as happened in the Mount Saint Helens eruption in 1980). Tropical rains turned the ash into ...

Expansive lava flows in the Sáttítla Highlands was captured by satellites ahead of the recent designation of the area as a national monument.