Beginning July 8, a swarm of earthquakes hit Mount Rainier. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Cascades ...

The Yellowstone supervolcano has been making headlines in recent weeks. There have been videos and comments circulating on major social media platforms about large numbers of wildlife leaving ...

The Volcano Rescue Team (VRT) was dispatched to Ape Cave south of Mount St. Helens on Wednesday, July 23, to assist a child and father in distress. The pair had reportedly attempted to climb out ...

Researchers released a few garden pests into a barren landscape destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 1980s. It is now brimming ...

A repost on the region of Lassen Peak in California, originally written by Henrik in 2013 This article began as a regular piece on Lassen Peak but quickly expanded as I discovered how complex the ...

About 74,000 years ago, the Earth experienced an event so immense that some scientists believe it nearly wiped out our species. This event is known as the Toba catastrophe, named after Lake Toba on ...

From Mount St Helens in Washington to the Mauna Loa in Hawaii, these structures have a complicated history of disaster and ...

Geophysics professor Jeffrey Johnson and geoscience postdoctoral research fellow Janine Andrys tackle three questions asked by kids, all about volcanoes ...

The so-called earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier dwindled Friday but has surpassed the last large event at the volcano in 2009, the USGS said.

The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as ...

Earthquakes are common at Mount Rainier, happening about nine times every month, the agency said. Swarms of earthquakes happen once or twice per year. Larger swarms are more rare – the last major ...

Scientists Dropped Gophers On Mount St. Helens For 24 Hours. Four Decades Later, The Impact Is Astonishing Not long after the eruption, a few gophers took a very strange day trip.