Tourists and officials were startled by a hydrothermal explosion at Black Diamond Pool in July 2024. Geoscientists are working out how and why it occurred to better understand these hazardous events.

Dominant trade wind conditions generally send tephra and volcanic gas southwest over the remote Ka ʻū Desert. Eruption ...

The league of experts and scientists who have spent decades keeping watch is being decimated by the Trump administration’s staffing cuts.

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has been erupting on and off since last year – spewing lava and ash. USGS, which monitors volcanoes in addition to earthquakes, predicts more eruptions to come ...

Experts are sounding the alarm over how the Department of Government Efficiency's latest spending cuts may trigger a deadly volcanic disaster along the West Coast. As Elon Musk 's sprawling cuts ...

The network receives funding from many sources, but most of it comes from annual contracts with the USGS through its Volcano Hazards Program. The current federal funding contract for the ...

Over the past four decades, the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program has collected data, which is used to predict eruptions and mitigate hazards, both abroad and in the U.S.

The United States ranks third, behind Indonesia and Japan, in the number of historically active volcanoes – with 161 potentially active volcanoes, according to the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

This research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Jack Kleinman Memorial Fund for Volcanic Research award, and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

That’s really exciting.” This research was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Jack Kleinman Memorial Fund for Volcanic Research award, and the USGS Volcano Hazards Program.

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have detected geochemical signatures of magma pooling and melting beneath the subsurface during the “Fagradalsfjall Fires”, that ...