To time how fast a sprinter runs, you just need a stopwatch. To time how fast magma moves, you need to know a little bit ...

Among them, Crater Lake in Oregon, which has been inactive for 4,800 years, harbors a surprisingly large magma chamber beneath it. These findings, published in Nature Geoscience, could reshape how ...

The study revealed a gigantic magma reservoir beneath the previously known magma chamber. This cross-section illustration cutting southwest-northeast under Yelowstone depicts the view revealed by ...

Learn how to prepare for disasters like earthquakes, volcanoes, and wildfires in Washington state with these safety tips and ...

Kilauea's ongoing eruptions at Halema'uma'u feature impressive lava fountains. Since December 2024, there have been 11 ...

Magma collects inside a volcano's magma chamber before it erupts. Nyiragongo's magma chamber is located about 10 miles below the surface of the Earth.

First, a plume of heat wells up from deep within the planet and melts rock just beneath the crust of the Earth, creating a vast chamber filled with a pressurized mix of magma, semisolid rock ...

Although the Kama‘ehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is ...

Although the Kamaehuakanaloa Seamount has been a little restless recently, new information about the undersea volcano is ...

Each eruptive episode has been accompanied by summit deflation, while pauses between episodes trigger rapid inflation as the magma chamber recharges. Previous episodes have lasted anywhere from a ...