John Pallister, retired chief of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program, looks over an example of a field installation used for monitoring a volcano at the USGS office in Vancouver in 2016. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files) Two dozen Volcano Disaster ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — A Vancouver-based program that responds to international volcanic eruptions could face elimination due to cuts being made by the Trump administration. The future of the Volcano Disaster Assistance Program (VDAP) is now uncertain ...

Another boost in volcanic activity has been observed at Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano, though an eruption is not occurring, officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday. There have been several small increases in seismic activity between Saturday ...

A second volcanic eruption in the area. Just last week, one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded history struck Kamchatka, Russia on July 29, triggering tsunami warnings as far as the West coast of the United States. “At 11:24am local time, a ...

KILAUEA (KHON) – Hawaii’s most active volcano is erupting once again. The Kīlauea volcano began erupting around 12:30 a.m. HST Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). The observatory said that lava is ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than from the likes of famous volcanoes such as Etna in Sicily or Yellowstone in the US. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK – The world’s most active volcano is at it again after Hawaii’s Kilauea began its seventh episode of its ongoing eruption, with video showing lava shooting more than 100 feet into the air. Scientists with the US ...