10,000 years of volcanic eruptions
Where are most of Earth's volcanoes?
An expedition to the Earth's fiery heart
Volcanic unrest - from science to society
10 things you didn't know about volcanoes
Every land volcano on Earth to be monitored from space
Satellite observations could help forecast an eruption's end
Volcanoes on borders: a scientific and (geo) political challenge
Great challenges in volcanology - how does the volcano factory work?
A historical perspective onlateral collapse and volcanic debris avalanches
Surprise magma pocket found in Iceland hints at more 'ticking time bombs'
The birth of volcanoes:
The complicated birth of a volcano
Scientists discover a new way volcanoes form
New insights into processes that cause volcanism
A massive subterranean 'tree' is moving magma to Earth's surface
Geophysicists challenge traditional theory underlying the origin of mid-plate volcanoes
Cryovolcanism:
Colossal crater found in Siberia. What made it?
Startling volcanic. activity has town in Iceland bracing for crisis
Supervolcanoes & Supereruptions:
Supervolcanoes
Mega volcanoes may be 'predicted'
Supervolcano eruption mystery solved
Secret of supervolcano found in tiny crystals
Are we prepared for the next mega-eruption?
The massive volcano that scientists can't find
Tamu Massif may not be a supervolcano after all
World's largest volcano now named Tamu Plateau
Super-eruptions may have surprisingly short fuses
What is a supervolcanoe? What is a supereruption?
Supervolcanic ash can turn to lava miles from eruption
Indonesia's Somalas volcano kick-started Little Ice Age
Study suggests ample warning of supervolcano eruptions
NASA;s ambitious plan to save Earth from a supervolcano
Colossal volcano behind 'mystery' global cooling finally found
The volcano that shrouded the Earth and gave birth to a monster
Super-eruptions may give only a year's warning before they blow
How rivers of hot ash and gas move when a supervolcano erupts
Late Bronze Age Thera eruption discovered in Turkey. Santorini
World's longest erupting supervolcanoes fueled by magma 'conveyor belts'
Doomsday volcanoes: next large volcanic eruption on the planet could kill 1 million people
Volcanic Risk:
Reading the Earth's LIPS
Global volcanic hazards and risks
30 years saving lives from volcanoes
High-risk volcanoes in populated areas
World-first volcano risk assessment system
Eruption risks from covert silica magma bodies
Hawai'i's role in reducing volcanic risk around the world
Anticipating climate impacts of major volcanic eruptions
Age and foaming: how to predict when a volcano will erupt
Communicating volcanic risk: lava, eruptions and uncertainty
Scientists' views about lay perceptions of volcanic hazard and risk
Crtical volcanology? Thinking holistically about risk and uncertainty
New study analyses volcanic fatalities in more detail than ever before
Reducing risks from lahar hazards: concepts, case studies, the roles for scientist
The influence of probabalistic volcanic hazard map properties on hazard communication
Volcanic Ashfall:
The destructive power of volcanic ash fall
PVAHA: Probabilistic Volcanic Ash Hazard Analysis
An online ashfall reporting tool Volcanic ash fall hazard and risk
The role of gravitational instabilities in deposition of volcanic ash
Weather forecast model predicts complex patterns of volcanic ash dispersal
Volcano monitoring and eruption early warning:
Mantle plumes persevere
AI fit to monitor volcanoes
Lessons of volcanic eruptions
Fourty years of plume research
A new type of volcanic eruption
Volcano eruptions have deep origins
Volcanic lands warm before eruptions
Eruptions, earthquakes and emissions
When magma prevents volcanic eruptions
Can earthquakes trigger volcanic eruptions?
Detecting hydrothermal vents in volcanic lakes
Volcanic eruptions that changed human history
Study advances understanding of volcanic eruptions
The calamilty of eruptions, or an eruption of benefits?
Taking the 'pulse' of volcanoes using satellite images
First eyewitness accounts of mystery volcanic eruption
Volcanic lightning can help warn of dangerous eruptions
Volcano topography can distort ground deformation data
Ground-breaking work sheds new light on volcanic activity
Visualising one of the most hazardous formations in Nature
Before the explosion – volcano’s warning tremors explained
Predicting the end of lava flow-forming eruptions from space
Clues from past volcanic explosion help model future activity
Volcanic plumbing provides clues on eruptions and earthquakes
Autopsy of an eruption: linking crystal growth to volcano seismicity
An analysis of the issuance of volcanic alert levels during volcanic crises
Volcanic unrest and pre-eruptive processes: a hazard and risk perspective
Earth's spin and volcanic eruptions: evidence for mutual cause-and-effect interactions?
Locating the depth of magma supply for volcanic eruptions (insights from Mt. Cameroon)
Inconvenient, apocalyptic, or in between? Why we shouldn't be complacent about volcanic eruption
Timescales of water accumulation in magmas and implications for short warning times pf exploseive eruptions
Forecasting eruptions:
Explosive forecasting
Forecasting volcanic eruptions with AI
Tidal cycles could help predict eruptions
Can volcanic gas levels predict an eruption
How to recognise where a volcano will erupt
Frictional heat is a trigger for explosive eruptions
Seismic signals reveal the volcanic eruption to come
Seismologists ask: how close are we to an eruption?
Sound waves help scientists track volcanic eruptions
A promising new tool for forecasting volcanic hazards
Volcano music could help scientists monitor eruptions
Probing magma reservoirs to improve volcano forecasts
Scientists identify trigger for explosive volcanic eruptions
Harnessing remote infrasound to study volcanic eruptions
Merged satellite, ground data may forecast volcanic eruptions
Exhaling Earth: scientists closer to forecasting volcanic eruptions
Training in crisis communicationand volcanic eruption forecasting
New trigger for volcanic eruptions discovered using jelly and lasers
How do you forecast eruptions at volcanoes that sit 'on the cusp' for decades?
A satelite view of volcanoes finds the link between ground deformation and eruption
'Crystal clocks' help with volcanic hazard management & better forecasting eruptions
Seafloor volcanoes:
Nautilus live - Ocean Exploration Trust
Masses of methane from mud volcanoes
Seafloor volcano pulses may alter climate
The geological history of deep-sea volcanoes
An eruption mechanism for undersea volcanoes
How productive are the ore factories in the deep sea?
Undersea volcano gave off signals before eruption in 2011
Ocean volcano may be largest on Earth, biggest in solar system
A massaive underwater volcanic eruption is captured in real time
100 million year old extinct volcano discovered beneath Pacific Ocean
Extinct undersea volcanoes squashed under Earth's crust cause tsunami quakes
Giant rhyolite lava dome formation after 7.3 ka supereruption at Kikai Caldera, SW Japan
The emergence and growth of a submarine volcano: the Kameni Islands, Santorini( Greece)
Space volcanism:
Space volcanoes
How Earth volcanes offer a window into the evolution of life and the Solar System
Chemistry of magma, lava, ash & emissions:
Volcanic plumbing exposed
A look inside volcanic flows
Chemistry trick kills controversy
Geodynamics: Christmas recycling
Volcano's toxic gas output revealed
Sulphur mining in an active volcano
Sensitivity to volcanic field boundary
Studying ancient Earths geochemistry
Volcanoes deliver two flavors of water
X-rays probe the soft hotspot volcanoes
Properties of magma influence forecasts
Volcanic rock and gas ride on a carpet of air
Understanding the copper heart of volcanoes
Water and lava, but - curiously - no explosion
How much magma is hiding beneath our feet?
Volcanic emissions: more than meets the eye?
Scientists persuade volcanoes to tell their stories
Volcanologists: magma is wetter than we thought
The 'universal break-up criterion' of hot, flowing lava
Volcano breath: measuring sulfur dioxide from space
How pre-eruption collisions effect what exits a volcano
Scientists discover caauses of deadliest volcano hazards
Drones swoop in to measure gas belched from volcanoes
Catastrophic debri avalanches - a second volcanic hazard
Magma can survive in upper crust for hundreds of millennia
The wprld's largest diamonds reveal secrets of the inner Earth
Geoscientists collaborate to understand silicic magma systems
Are volcano releases mix of material from Earth's mantle and crust?
Limestone assimilation under volcanoes helps understand Earth's carbon cycle
Impact of volcanic eruptions on weather, climate, stratosphere & ozone layer:
Eruptions impacts on world rivers
Volcanic gases could deplete ozone layer
Investigating the effect of volcanoes on climate
This volcano sparked a weeklong thunderstorm
Ancient flood volcanoes could have altered climate
Volcanoes cause climate gas concentrations to vary
Ancient Irish texts show volcanic link to cold weather
Volcanic eruptions drove ancient global warming event
Volcanic eruptions stir an already complex atmosphere
Super volcanic eruptions interrupt ozone layer recovery
Very large volcanic eruptions could lead to ice sheet instability
Satellite research reveals smaller volcanoes could cool climate
Climate change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet
Anak Krakatau triggers volcanic freezer in the upper stratosphere
Does water vapor from volcanic eruptions cause climate warming?
Rewriting the history of volcanic forcing during the past 2000 years
Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions
Small volcanic eruptions and the stratospheric sulphate aerosol burden
Unusual volcanic episodes rapidly triggered Little Ice Age, researchers find
Massive Antarctic volcanic eruptions linked to abrupt Southern Hemisphere climate changes
The climatic effects of the direct injection of water vapour into the stratosphere by large volcanic eruptions
Volcano related profiles, projects, programs & data:
Josef Dufek's website
Global volcano model
The FutureVolc project
The 40,000 mile volcano
Global volcanism program
WOVODAT: build it and they will come
BBC audio slideshow: volcano visitors
Smithsonian Institution global volcanism program
Twin volcanic chains above a single hotspot with distinct roots
Fiery volcano offers geologic glimpse into land that time forgot
Global database on large magnitude explosive volcanic eruptions (LaMEVE)
MIAVITA: Mitigate and Assess risk from volcanic Impact on terrain and human Activities
Vhub: a knowledge management system to facilitate online collaborative volcano modeling & research
Dangers to aircraft traffic posed by volcanic clouds:
Flight safety and volcanic ash
Don't build your model on sand!
In a warming world, keeping the planes running
Novel ash analysis validates volcano no-fly zone
NASA flies unmanned aircraft into volcanic plume
Can we predict how volcanic ash disperses after an eruption?
Satellite data used for mitigating aviation related volcanic hazards
How Qantas and other airlines decid whether to fly near volcanoes
Volcanic ash impact on air travel could be reduced says new research
Volcanic ash melting under conditions relevant to ash turbine interactions
Visualizing volcanic clouds in the atmosphere and their imppact on air traffic
Encounters of Aircraft with Volcanic Ash Clouds: A Compilation of Known Incidents, 1953–2009
Regional issues:
Asia:
Korea:
A visit to North Korean volcano Paektu
Korea, Japan to Monitor Volcanic Activity on Mt. Baekdu
Japan:
Mt Ontake and possible Fuji eruption
Mt Fuji eruption would paralyze Tokyo
Ash could paralyze Tokyo if Mt Fuji erupts
Pressure in Mt. Fuji is now higher than last eruption
Why hundreds of thousands climb Mt Fuji every year
Two active volcanoes in Japan may share a magma source
Source and path of magma for volcanoes in the subduction zone of northeastern Japan
How many explosive eruptions missing from the geologic record? Analysis of explosive eruptions in Japan
China:
Re-awakening volcanic activity in China
Ancient ash volcanoes entombed Chinese dinosaurs
Philippines:
Scientists fear major volcanic eruption in the Philippines
Pinatubo 25 years later: eight ways the eruption broke ground
Simulation of the climate impact of Mt. Pinatubo eruption using ECHAM5
Indonesia:
Lava pancakes beneath Mt.Toba (Indonesia)
Why the 'Child of Krakatau' is still dangerous
Revolutionizing volcano monitoring in Indonesia
A look inside one of Earth's most dramaic volcanoes
What led to the largest volcanic eruption in human history?
Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant
Life-saving technology provides alert as Bali's Mount Agung spews ash, raises alarm
Source of the great A.D.1257 mystery eruption unveiled, Samalas volcano, Indonesia
URI scientists model the Anak Krakatau volcano, tsunami to better prepare US for future tsunamis
North America:
US national volcano warning system gains steam
No redoubt: volcanic eruption forecasting improved
US readies health response for the next big eruption
Government ranks 18 US volcanoes as 'very high threat'
2018 update to the USGS national volcanic threat assessment
Alaska:
Alaska Volcano Observatory
Alaska islands maybe part of single, massive volcano
Alaska volcano researchers refine 'hearing' to find eruptions
Alaska volcano's screams may explain eruption's awesome power
Volcanic thunder from explosive eruptions at Bogoslof Volcano, Alaska
Pacific Northwest:
Cascade Mountain Image
Mount Meager: over the volcano
New view of Rainier’s volcanic plumbing
Washington's volcanoes get more scientific scrutiny
BC's distinctive tuya volcanoes reveal glacial, paleo-climate secrets
Volcanoes, including Mt Hood, can go from dormant to active quickly
Variations in community exposure to lahar hazards from multiple volcanoes in Washington State, USA
Mt St Helens:
40 years later, Mt. St. Helens looms as a marvel and a threat
40 years later, lessons for the pandemic from Mount St. Helens
Small magnitude earthquake swarm continues at Mount St Helens
Mount St Helens isn't where it should be . Scientists may finally know why.
New imagery solves mystery pf why Mount St Helens is out of line with other volcanoes
Mount St Helens' next eruptiion could be massive - 4 magma chambers found lurking under the volcano
Yellowstone:
Supervolcanoes: not a threat for 2012
Huge volcano sleeps under Yellowstone
Scientists see deeper Yellowstone magma
Yellowstone: the super-volcano that could blow up America
The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen
Pinpointing the trigger behind Yellowstone's last supereruption
Yellowstone supereruption would send ash across North America
Study challenges widely accepted theory of Yellowstone formation
BYU geologists discover 'supervolcano' in Utah: past eruption superseded Yellowstone
Yellowstone supervolcano may have formed in a completely different way to how we thought
Mid-Miocene record of large-scale Snake River like explosive volcanism on Yellowstone hotspot track
California:
California's exposure to volcanic hazards
With 8 threatening volcanoes, USGS says California deserves close monitoring
Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: a volcanic explosion crater may have future potential
Central America:
Undersea volcano in Eastern Caribbean
Learning from the 'El Fuego' volcano, Guatamala
The surprising threat from Mexico's awakened volcano
Evidence of large volcanic actvity in the Caribbean uncovered
South America:
Potentially active volcanoes of Peru
Highly explosive volcanism at Galapagos
German satellites could help Chile predict natural disasters
3D model reveals new information about iconic volcano Ardnamurchan
Magma intrusion is likely source of Columbia-Ecuador border quake swarms
Colombia: the volcano that changed the course of disaster risk management
Ubinas: the evolution of the historically most active volcano in Southern Peru
Columbia: quakes, mudslides, an acgtive volcano - inside the world's riskiest city
Dynamic and extensive risk arisinf from volcanic ash impacts on agriculture (Caribbean and Ecudor)
Thermal, deformation & degassing time series (CE 2000-2017) at 47 active volcanoes of Latin America
Hawaii & Pacific:
Hawaii: when lava meets sea
Hawaiian volcanoes, explained
A Kilauea eruption like no other
Hawaii: a hole in Earth's surface?
Two-faced Kilauea volcano exposed
Four ways Kilauea is redrawing the map
A new tool for studying eruptions like Kilauea
The origin of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Extrusive volcanism formed the Hawaiian Islands
Thermal maps reveal the vast network of lava flows
The geology behind Mauna Loa's 2022 eruption
Hundreds of volcanic explosions detected underwater at Kilauea
Continuous monitoring of Hawaiian volcnoes with thermal cameras
Study explains the connection between Hawaii's dueling volcanoes
USGS Volcanic hazard at the summit of Kilauea June 29, 2018 update
Observing and forecasting vog dispersion from Kilauea Volcano.Hawaii
Scripps scientists image deep magma beneath Pacific seafloor volcano
Lava fingerprinting reveals differences between Hawaii's twin volcanoes
Geochemical zoning of volcanic chains associated with Pacific hotspots
Seismic source dynamics of gas-piston activity at Kilauea Volcano, Hawai'ii
Real-time observations explain magma dynamics of Kilauea's 2018 eruption
Rapid metal pollutant deposition from the volcanic plume of Kilauea, Hawai'
Students, researchers at sea working on recently erupted deep-sea volcano
'Paradise tax': the price Hawaiians are prepared to pay for living near volcanoes
USGS led public video conference regarding the Kilauea eruption of April-May 2018
First-ever 3D image created of the structure beneath sierra Negra volcano in the Galapagos
Role of the deep mantle in generating the compositional asymmetry of the Hawaiian mantle plume
Australia & New Zealand:
Australian volcanic mystery explained
Scientists map Auckland's volcanic hazard zones
Taupo: Implications of a supervolcano's seismicity
World's longest continental volcano track found in Australia
Why the New Zealand volcano eruption caught the world by surprise
Research explores impacts of hypothetical volcano eruption in Auckland
Could volcanic eruptions in the south-west Pacific save the Great Barrier Reef?
Bridging Maori indigenous knowledge and western geosciences to reduce social vulnerability
The spatial & temporal 'cost' of volcanic eruption: Assessing economic impact, etc. Auckland region, NZ
Africa:
Congo conflict masks deadly volcano threat
Familiarity with volcanoes breeds content
Large mantle magma reservoir of Afar, Ethiopia
Volcanoes helped violent revolts erupt in ancient Egypt
A volcano erupted with out warning. Now, scientists know why
Tracking the hazards, and benefits, of volcanoes in East Africa
Stratospheric AOD after the 2011 eruption of Nabro volcano measured by Northern Hemisphere lidars
Very- and ultra-long- period seismic signals prior to and during caldera formation on La Reunion Island
Structural controls on fluid pathways in an active rift system: a case study of the Aluto volcanic complex
Europe & Russia:
Santorini volcano expands
Santorini sees growth spurt
Russian volcano eruption ongoing
Why 536 was 'the worst year to be alive'
The monster volcanoes hidden beneath Italy
Six undersea volcanoes found hiding in plain sight
Scientists create world's first 3D thermal of volcano
Active volcanism found under the heart of northwest Europe
Dating the ancient Minoan eruption of Thera using tree rings
GeoSEA array records sliding of Mount Etna's southeatern flank
Forecasring magma-chamber rupture at Santorini volcano, Greece
Europe's age of inferno: how a volcano swallowed the Western world
Italy's Campi Flegrei supervolcano eruption possibly closer than thought
Water-magma interaction and plume processes in the 2008 Okmok eruption
Europe's most dangerous supervolcano is reawakening just in time for Christmas
Direct linking of Greenland and Antarctica ice cores at the Toba eruption (74kyr BP)
A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it's stirring again
Volcanic eruptions triggered societal crises during 6th century in the Northern Hemisphere
Operational eruption forecasting at high-risk volcanoes: the case of Campi Flegrei, Naples
Geodetic evidence for a bouyant mantle plume beneath the Eifel volcanic area, NW Europe
Iceland:
Eyjafjallajokull's plume is electrified
Iceland volcanoes said growing threat
When the ice melts, the Earth spews fire
Time-bomb? Iceland volcano eruption mystery
Icelandic volcano sits on massive magma hotspot
Scotland to monitor pollution from Iceland's volcanoes
Visualizing the shaking rage of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano
How Icelandic volcano issued warnings months before its eruption
Climatic control on Icelandic volcanic activity during the mid-Holocene
Estimating the frequency of volcanic ash clouds over Northern Europe
More than 30,000 earthquakes trace the movement of magma in Iceland
Scientists observe the Earth grow a new layer under an Icelandic volcano
Possible magma accumulation beneth Mt Thorbjorn on Reykjaynes peninsula
Antarctica:
Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet
New Antartic rift data has implications for volcanic evolution
Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
Researchers discover volcanic heat source under major Antarctic glacier
Scientists find giant mantle plume (similar to Yellowstone) under Antarctica
Predicting unpredictability: information theory offers new way to read ice cores