When most of us think about active volcanoes in the U.S., Mount St. Helens, Mt. Rainier and a few others will first come to mind. However, one of the most active volcanoes in the region is about a ...

Scientists have found giant magma reservoirs under dormant volcanoes in the Cascades. A new study shows that the magma system can persist even after eruptions.

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The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

A seismic survey challenges the long-standing belief that only active volcanoes have large magma bodies sitting beneath them.

Pierce County faces the threat of a volcanic eruption, earthquakes ... The sun rises behind Mount Rainier as seen from Tumwater, Washington, on Thursday, March 7, 2024. Dan Wehmeier told The ...

Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...

In Herculaneum, an ancient Roman town not far from the foot of Mount Vesuvius, 300 people took shelter in boathouses near the waterfront. All of them suffered horrible deaths from the heat and ash of ...

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