Livestream video from Japan’s Sakurajima volcano showed an impressive plume of ash rising from its crater on April 11.The broadcaster NTV cited the Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory as

Volcano Watch” is a weekly article and activity update written by Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates. Today’s article was written by HVO geologist Katie Mulliken. Retired Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologist Don Swanson stands in front of an outcrop near Uēkahuna at the summit of Kīlauea,

Dubbed the Kikai caldera, this mostly-underwater caldera located south of Japan’s Ryuku Islands last erupted 7,300 years ago, marking the largest volcanic eruption in the current geological epoch, the Holocene.

Footage captured a minor phreatomagmatic eruption at Taal Volcano’s main crater in the Philippines on Friday, April 10, according to officials.The eruption produced a short, 200-meter plume, the

Past “Volcano Watch” articles have summarized the episodic lava fountaining eruptions in Kilauea’s recent history—within the past couple hundred years. A look further back in the geologic record reveals that several lava fountaining eruptions similar to the ongoing one in Halema‘uma‘u occurred within Kilauea caldera within the past 500 years.

A recent study reveals that the Poás volcano has changed its eruption pattern, redefining the global ash-related risk map.

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