Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a shield volcano. I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius. A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma ...

I’m in Italy visiting a very famous volcano called Mount Vesuvius ... Some volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii are caused by hot spots in the Earth’s crust. These do not erupt violently ...

Imagine standing at the rim of a vast caldera, the earth beneath your feet formed by unimaginable forces millions of years ...

The Big Island is home to Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, two of the world’s most ... Luzon’s Mayon Volcano stands as a near-perfect cone and is the most active in the Philippines. Mount Pinatubo’s 1991 ...

Glaciers are retreating and shrinking, sometimes drastically; Mount Kenya’s largest glacier ... “Tuvalu is a submerged volcano in the middle of the ocean with no shallow shelf to dissipate ...

Hawaii's main volcano chains--the Loa and Kea trends--have distinct sources of magma and ... islands and the giant Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea volcanoes (which are higher than Mount Everest when measured ...

The 11,000-foot-tall active volcano Mount Spurr, about 80 miles west of Anchorage, has experienced 22 earthquakes since April 10, leaving scientists at the Alaska Volcano Observatory unable to ...

Scientists provided an update Thursday on the chances of an eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska, a situation being closely monitored by officials in Anchorage, the state’s largest city.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Scientists provided an update Thursday on the chances of an eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska, a situation being closely monitored by officials in Anchorage ...

Kanlaon, located between the provinces of Negros Oriental and Negros Occidental on the island of Negros, ranks among the 24 most active volcanoes in the Philippines. Mount Kanlaon in the central ...