Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

Iceland is entering a new period of volcanic unrest. See how one small team helps keep people safe ...

New Jersey was once home to a fiery volcano roughly the size of Mount St. Helens – that sits in the same county as a newly mapped fault line. Rutan Hill, in Wantage, NJ, appears to be and is ...

The crater was formed when Askja, a volcano in Vatnajokull National Park ... water samples from its deepest points. The data is not easy to get. The numbingly cold and often tempestuous waters ...

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Here’s hoping it’s nothing to blow your lid over. A normally quiet “high threat” volcano in Washington state has been rumbling at a record rate — prompting an alert from geologists who ...

Here’s how it works. In the year 946 CE, the Changbaishan-Tianchi volcano, on the border between China and North Korea, erupted ferociously. The eruption released dozens of cubic kilometers of ...

A diagram shows Easter Island's tectonic context. The researchers believe the volcanoes that created the island included some ancient material from the mantle plume. A diagram shows Easter Island ...

Among the snow-capped volcanoes of the Pacific Northwest, Mount Adams gets relatively little love. There are more glamorous volcanoes to climb (Mount Rainier) or to ski (Mount Hood) or that have ...