Communities in the Pacific Northwest are no strangers to volcanoes, with many of the region’s towns and cities overshadowed by seismically active peaks. Yet while eruptions usually give locals time to ...

The program responds to volcanic eruptions internationally, collecting data and providing assistance to affected communities.

A new radar-based volcano monitoring system developed by the University of Alaska Fairbanks and U.S. Geological Survey will ...

With eruptions in 1998, 2011, and 2015, the volcano serves as a perfect laboratory, and experts expect an eruption by the end of 2025.

The result was the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, or VDAP. Based at the Cascades Volcano Observatory in Vancouver, Washington, this crack unit is standing by at all times, ready to lend a ...

Six earthquakes were recorded at Mount Adams in September, the most since monitoring began in 1982, according to the U.S. Geological Survey's Cascades Volcano Observatory. The agency and the ...

Mount Spurr is not the kind of lava-spewing volcano familiar from Hawaii, but instead has historically ejected huge plumes of ...