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When a volcano erupts, it can spew ash high into the atmosphere—inserting aerosols right where clouds typically form. How ...
Oxford researchers found that changes in shear-wave splitting can predict volcanic eruptions and their severity. The signal ...
Learn how ash from volcanic eruptions can alter ice content in clouds, influencing how Earth handles radiation.
Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...
It is runny! Most eruptions in Hawai’i and Iceland start with lava fountains before settling down to erupt lava flows. Lava fountains create some distinct volcanic products thanks to the runny nature ...
Stunning, historic front-page coverage from The Oregonian reporters Les Zaitz and Steve Jenning reports the confusion and ...
The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed 57 lives and blasted the terrain of old-growth ...
A new study has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions of Ontake Volcano in ...
A volcano eruption near Oregon is brewing — but don ... a nap but now it’s waking up and we think it’s likely to erupt before the end of 2025,” Bill Chadwick, a volcanologist with Oregon ...
Chadwick and fellow scientist Scott Nooner predicted the volcano’s 2015 eruption seven months before it happened after they realized the seafloor was inflating quite quickly and linearly.
A land bridge was formed between the two smaller islands after the eruption ... shows the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano before its main eruption, in Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai, Tonga ...
Before and After Eruption at Tica Hydrothermal Vent ... They were looking at the results of a volcanic eruption. In the distance, they spotted orange flashes of molten lava being released and ...