Suggested Citation: "3 Forecasting Eruptions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Volcanic Eruptions and Their Repose, Unrest, Precursors, and Timing. Washington, DC: The ...

An international assessment report has been released to provide definitive statements on the atmospheric impacts from a huge volcanic eruption in 2022. The assessment was unprecedented for a specific ...

Forecasting volcanic eruptions in time to alert authorities and populations remains a major global challenge. In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers and engineers from the Institut ...

Satellites operated by NASA have detected a temporary island in the Caspian Sea, formed by an offshore mud-volcano eruption, adding fresh evidence to a growing scientific case that these volatile ...

Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as massive rafts floating ...

On Sunday, November 23, 2025, Hayli Gubbi, a volcano in Ethiopia's Afar Region, erupted for the first time in recorded history. Scientists think the last time this volcano blew was somewhere between ...

A series of lava fountains building -a cone perched on the crater rim … sounds like the ongoing eruption in Halema‘uma‘u at the summit of Kilauea, but this description could also fit the Kilauea Iki ...

NASA has recorded the most powerful volcanic eruption outside of Earth on Io, one of Jupiter’s moons. On December 27, 2022, Juno, NASA’s spacecraft, witnessed numerous active volcanoes erupting ...

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupted on Tuesday morning, spitting out football-sized particles into the air. Fallout of the particles were reported at overlooks in the Hawai'i Volcanoes National park ...

POPOCATÉPETL VOLCANO, Mexico -- In the predawn darkness, a team of scientists climbs the slope of Mexico's Popocatépetl volcano, one of the world's most active and whose eruption could affect millions ...