Mount Etna’s past eruptions reveal that a single volcano can erupt through very different underground pathways.
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For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises toward the surface. When pressure falls, gases dissolved deep within the ...
We know very little about the processes that lead to a reeruption of supervolcanoes such as the mostly underwater Kikai caldera in Japan (pictured) and are therefore ill-equipped to make predictions.
An eruption forecast is a probabilistic assessment of the likelihood and timing of volcanic activity. The forecast may also include information about the expected style of activity (Section 1.6), the ...
For more than 100,000 years, a Greek volcano lay silent. But deep underground, it was still growing. Tiny zircon crystals show magma was quietly brewing between eruptions, researchers report April 22 ...
The magma reservoir of the largest volcanic eruption of the Holocene is refilling. This Kobe University insight on the Kikai caldera in Japan allows us to understand giant caldera volcanoes like ...