However, Saunders said there was little pumice being produced by the volcano now as its activity has abated in the past week or two, and that pumice rafts around Manus Island had ...

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook the sea off Papua New Guinea’s New Britain region, rattling communities along the coast east of Kokopo and reviving long-standing concerns about seismic risk in one of ...

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Phivolcs footage shows powerful ash-and-steam column as monitoring continues Steam and ash rise from the main crater of Taal Volcano during a phreatomagmatic eruption in Batangas province, south of ...

Rivers of glowing lava have been flowing down the slopes of Mount Etna, after Europe's most active volcano erupted once again. The latest eruption happened on the island of Sicily, where bright orange ...

A new international study has found that Indigenous oral traditions, some thousands of years old, hold valuable and often overlooked insights into volcanic eruptions—offering important lessons for ...

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