In the plot of many classic science fiction novels, like Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” and H.G. Wells’ “The Invisible Man,” a curious scientist is conducting a ground-breaking laboratory experiment ...

Last week’s earthquake in western Montana was the strongest earthquake in the region in 60 years. An initial quake set off 10 smaller earthquakes, with people as far west as Seattle and as far north ...

A new analysis of the 2018 collapse of Kilauea volcano's caldera helps to confirm the reigning scientific paradigm for how friction works on earthquake faults. The model quantifies the conditions ...

On April 30, 2018, on the eastern flank of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano, lava suddenly drained from a crater that had been spewing lava for more than three decades. Then the floor of the crater, named ...

The last caldera-forming eruption at Yellowstone "was much more complex than previously thought," according to the annual report about activity at the supervolcano. When you purchase through links on ...

One of California’s riskiest volcanoes has for decades been undergoing geological changes and seismic activity, which are sometimes a precursor to an eruption, but — thankfully — no supervolcanic ...

As gateways to the seething-hot heart of our planet, volcanoes are feared for their occasionally cataclysmic behavior. From Vesuvius to Krakatau, some of the most devastating eruptions in human memory ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week’s contribution is from Behnaz Hosseini, Ph.D. student, ...