The authorities have withdrawn the alert status for the Tangkuban Parahu volcano in West Java, allowing the nature tourism area to be reopened to visitors after almost a month of closure. The normal status for the volcano, located 20 km north of Bandung, was declared at 4.30 pm on Monday, more »
Russia’s Plosky Tolbachik volcano continues to erupt spewing lava as high as 650 feet and sending gas and ash even higher into the sky.
Russian scientists reported there are no signs the Plosky Tolbachik volcano will stop erupting soon, spewing hot lava 656 feet high.
The ongoing eruption of Russia’s Plosky Tolbachik volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula has sent gas and ashes 2-1/2 miles into the sky.
A volcano is on red alert near the Chile-Argentina border, with the volcano billowing ash and smoke as geologists keep watch. The volcano was put on red alert on Sunday after it became increasingly active. The Copahue volcano, which sits in the Andes cordillera, first started emitting spewing ash and more »
Chile is issuing a red alert for a volcano on the border with Argentina that has become increasingly active. The Copahue volcano straddling Argentina's Neuquen province started spewing ash and gas on Saturday. Officials issued a yellow and orange alert. Chile's emergency office ONEMI raised the alert Sunday in more »
Ecuador issued an orange alert — the second-highest warning level — for towns near the Tungurahua volcano on Sunday, as its level of activity rose.
Russian volcano, Plosky Tolbachik, had been dormant for close to 40 years, but has recently erupted, spewing hot lava down its banks. Molten rock from Plosky Tolbachik destroyed a nearby recreational base, and set fire to a nearby forest. No casualties have been reported from the eruption. The natural more »
A volcano in Russia’s Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula has erupted for the first time in 36 years. Polsky Tolbachik began spewing a column of ash seven kilometers into the atmosphere. A volcanic ash cloud formed and is drifting to the northwest as lava flows down the volcano’s southern slope. The eruption more »
A volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia, spewing clouds of thick, gray ash half a mile in the air.
The Sakurajima volcano in southern Japan has erupted in spectacular fashion. The volcano, which has has erupted more than 600 times this year, burst into life again Tuesday night, sending a massive shower of molten rock and ash into the sky. The blast was caught on camera. The more »
The chamber of molten rock beneath a volcano on a Greek island expanded 300 million-700 million cubic feet in a little more than year, researchers say. A team led by Oxford University scientists said the growth of the magma lifted the surface of Santorini, in the Aegean Sea, 5.5 more »
Around 3,000 people have been evacuated after Nicaragua's tallest volcano erupted spewing smoke and ash almost three miles into the sky. Residents reported hearing three powerful explosions in the San Cristobal volcano, located 83 miles northwest of the capital Managua. Ash has fallen on the towns of El Viejo, more »
Watch this video of a volcano eruption in Southern Japan. It spewed ash onto nearby Kagoshima City. The volcano has erupted over 600 times this year and is expected to continue its intermittent eruptions.
Rising volcanic activity has led scientists to increase their risk assessment for Mt Tongariro in the central North Island (New Zealand). A sequence of small volcanic earthquakes hit beneath Mount Tongariro last Friday before declining quickly. The quakes, which are all below magnitude 2.5, started again on Wednesday and more »
A report released this week from EU-body the European Environment Agency (EEA) found the highest levels of natural pollutants were in Spain, which frequently experiences forest fires, most recently this month. Of 42 instances where the levels in Spain were reported above legal limits, 18 were caused by natural more »
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupted Saturday spewing smoke and ash from its crater, bringing back memories of avalanches in 1985 that killed an estimated 25,000 people when it buried them under mud, rocks and lava while residents slept. The eruption prompted evacuations from communities close to the site. more »
An aviation alert level of “ orange ” has been raised after Cleveland Volcano , a remote volcano in Alaska produced an ash cloud several miles high after a small eruption. According to a CNN report on Wednesday, June 20, 2012, the Cleveland Volcano on the Aleutian Islands southwest of mainland Alaska erupted briefly on Tuesday afternoon. It created an ash cloud with a height of approximately 23,000 feet above sea level.