When individuals hear volcanoes, they tend to envision blazing eruptions blasting into the air. However, volcanoes can also collapse sideways, with their sides, or flanks, collapsing.

A magnitude-3.9 earthquake rattled the Big Island, striking from nearly 20 miles below sea level the night of Oct. 2 in Kaʻū. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory reported that the shaker struck at 8:28 p.m.

For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the ...

The models can help local authorities and communities by evaluating the potential for collapse long before ground may give way entirely and suddenly.

With a partial federal government shutdown in place and the Trump administration freezing $26 billion in federal funding for Democrat-run states, including Hawaii, the office of Gov. Josh Green says ...

The air on Venus is about 96.5% carbon dioxide, a potent greenhouse gas. All that CO2 leads to a runaway greenhouse effect which has turned Venus into a toxic hellscape. It’s hotter even than the ...

Employees of a store inside a mall at South Road Properties in Cebu City scramble for safety after the establishment partially collapsed during the magnitude 6.9 earthquake that struck Cebu on Tuesday ...

There remained many unanswered questions from bereaved families, the inquest into the Whakaari / White Island tragedy has heard.

The Philippine government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency are currently in talks to revisit next year the 2004 study on the impact of “The Big One” or magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Metro ...

The discoveries challenge the popular image of Yellowstone as a ticking time bomb with a single massive underground pool of molten rock.

Around 60 million years ago, a massive upwelling of hot rock from deep beneath the surface of Iceland sparked volcanic eruptions across the North Atlantic, spreading from Greenland to Ireland and ...