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Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first ...

Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, one of the most active in the world, is about to erupt again, according to the United States ...

A local administrator said there was no previous record of an eruption by the Hayli Gubbi volcano and that he fears for the ...

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 ...

Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano began erupting again on Wednesday for the 30th time in under a year, continuing to be among one of the world’s most active volcanoes. The U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian ...

A volcano on Japan’s major western island of Kyushu had multiple eruptions on Sunday, sending a plume of ash almost three miles into the air.

A powerful eruption rocked Japan as the Sakurajima volcano in Kagoshima Prefecture blasted a towering ash plume 4,400 meters ...

A volcano on Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted overnight into Sunday for the first time in at least 400 years. The Krasheninnikov volcano sent ash more than 3.7 miles into the sky, ...

Russia’s Ministry for Emergency Services lifted a tsunami warning for the Kamchatka Peninsula on Sunday after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit the nearby Kuril Islands. The ministry had said earlier on ...

Russia’s Krasheninnikov volcano erupted for the first time in centuries on August 3, sending ash and gas nearly four miles into the atmosphere—less than 150 miles away from the epicenter of the ...