Ships approaching Deception Island Antarctica enter through Neptune’s Bellows, a narrow opening in the volcanic island where ...
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.
Krakatau, a volcanic island in Indonesia, killed more than 30,000 people when it erupted in 1883. One might assume that ...
In 2022, the eruption and collapse of an underwater volcano in Tonga caused a devastating tsunami that killed four people, ...
Researchers say the tsunami from the Hunga volcano near Tonga may have been intensified when the volcano's structure ...
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 ...
At first glance, the region covered by this latest Mars Express image release appears to be pockmarked with impact craters. But the largest structure among them may hold a rather explosive secret: it ...
Submarine caldera eruptions are difficult to study because their most important processes occur beneath the ocean.
During the major eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in the South Pacific in January 2022, a submarine caldera approximately 5 kilometers wide collapsed by an average of about 1 kilometer almost ...
Over 3,000 years ago, the eruption of Santorini’s volcano ended an ancient civilization. Scientists may know what the next big explosion could look like. A man looks out across the Santorini caldera ...